Chapter 103 — EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS

103.001 Definitions. In chs. 103 to 106, the following words and phrases have the designated meanings unless a different meaning is expressly provided: (1) “Commission” means the labor and industry review commission. (2) “Commissioner” means a member of the commission. (3) “Depar…

103.005 Powers, duties and jurisdiction of department. (1) The department shall adopt reasonable and proper rules and regulations relative to the exercise of its powers and authorities and proper rules to govern its proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of all investiga…

103.007 Local regulation of hours of labor and overtime; statewide concern; uniformity. (1) The legislature finds that employee hour and overtime requirements that are uniform throughout the state is a matter of statewide concern and that the enactment of an ordinance by a city, …

103.01 Hours of labor; definitions. In ss. 103.01 to 103.03: (1) (a) “Employer” means every person having control or custody of any employment or place of employment. (b) “Employer” includes the state, its political subdivisions and any office, department, independent agency, aut…

103.02 Hours of labor. No person may be employed or be permitted to work in any place of employment or at any employ- May 22, 2026, are designated by NOTES. (Published 5-22-26) 5 Updated 23-24 Wis. Stats. EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS 103.05 ment for such period of time during any day, …

103.023 Hours of labor and recordkeeping; minor league baseball players. (1) In promulgating rules under s. 103.02 classifying periods of time into periods to be paid for at regular rates and periods to be paid for at the rate of at least one and one-half times the regular rates,…

103.025 Hours of labor; compensatory time. (1) In this section: (a) “Compensatory time” means hours during which an employee is not working, which are not counted as hours worked during the workweek or other work period classified by the department by rule promulgated under s. 10…

103.03 Violations; penalty. The employment of any person in any employment or place of employment at any time other than the permissible hours of labor shall be prima facie evidence of a History: 1975 c. 94; Stats. s. 103.03.

103.04 Labor and industry review commission. (1) The commission shall issue its decision in any case where a petition for review is filed under ch. 102 or 108 or s. 66.191, 1981 stats., or s. 40.65 (2), 106.52 (4), 106.56 (4), 111.39, 303.07 (7) or 303.21. (2) Notwithstanding s. …

103.05 Hiring reporting system; state directory of new hires. (1) The department shall establish and operate a hiring reporting system that includes a state directory of new hires. All requirements under the reporting system shall be consistent with federal laws and regulations t…

103.06 Worker classification compliance. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Business day” means any day on which the offices of the department are open. (b) “Employee” means any of the following who is employed by an employer: 1. For purposes of compliance with the requiremen…

103.10 Family or medical leave. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Child” means a natural, adopted, or foster child, a stepchild, or a legal ward to whom any of the following applies: 1. The individual is less than 18 years of age. 2. The individual is 18 years of age or olde…

103.11 Bone marrow and organ donation leave. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Bone marrow” has the meaning given in s. 146.34 (1) (a). (b) Except as provided in subs. (2) (b) 1. and (15), “employee” means an individual employed in this state by an employer. (c) Except as pr…

103.12 Local regulation of employment benefits; statewide concern; uniformity. (1) The legislature finds that each employer in this state should be allowed to determine the employment benefits the employer provides to its employees without interference by local governments. The l…

103.13 Records open to employee. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “employee” includes former employees. (2) OPEN RECORDS. Every employer shall, upon the request of an employee, which the employer may require the employee to make in writing, permit the employee to inspect any pers…

103.14 Grooming requirement; notification. Each employer shall, at the time of hiring, notify each employee about any hairstyle, facial hair or clothing requirement. History: 1981 c. 334; 1983 a. 189 s. 329 (4); 1995 a. 27.

103.15 Restrictions on use of an HIV test. (1) In this section: (a) “Employer” includes the state, its political subdivisions and any office, department, independent agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body in state or local government created or authori…

103.155 Mandatory training regarding human trafficking. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Campground” means a parcel or tract of land owned by a person, the state, or a local government that is designed, maintained, intended, or used for the purpose of providing campsites, o…

103.16 Seats for employees; penalty. Every employer employing employees in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in this state shall provide suitable seats for its employees, and shall permit the use of those seats by its employees when the employees are not n…

103.165 Employee’s cash bonds to be held in trust; duty of employer; penalty. (1) Where any person requests any employee to furnish a cash bond, the cash constituting such bond shall not be mingled with the moneys or assets of such person demanding the same, but shall be deposite…

103.17 Mutual forfeit. Any employer engaged in manufacturing that requires its employees, under penalty of forfeiture of a part of the wages earned by those employees, to provide a notice of intention to leave the employer’s employ shall be liable for the payment of a like forfei…

103.18 Threat or promise to influence vote. No person shall, by threatening to discharge a person from his or her employment or threatening to reduce the wages of a person or by promising to give employment at higher wages to a person, attempt to influence a qualified voter to gi…

103.20 Penalty. Any person who violates s. 103.15 (2) or (3), 103.17, or 103.18 shall be fined not more than $100. History: 1985 a. 29; 1985 a. 73 s. 8; 2017 a. 11.

103.21 Street trades; definitions. As used in ss. 103.21 to 103.31: (1) Every minor selling or distributing newspapers or magazines on the streets or other public place, or from house to house, is in an “employment” and an “employee,” and each independent news agency or (in the a…

103.22 General standards and powers of the department. The general standards for the employment of minors set forth in s. 103.65 apply to the employment of minors in street trades, and in relation to that employment the department has the powers and duties specified in s. 103.66.…

103.23 Age minimum. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), a minor under 12 years of age shall not be employed or permitted to work at any time in any street trade. (2) A minor under 12 years of age may work in a fund-raising sale for a nonprofit organization, a public school, a pri…

103.24 Hours of work. The department shall determine and fix reasonable hours of employment for minors under 16 years of age in street trades. Except as provided in this section, the department may not fix hours of employment for minors under 16 years of age in street trades that…

103.245 Designation of a permit officer. (1) (a) The department shall designate a school board, as defined in s. 115.001 (7), as a permit officer unless the school board refuses the designation. (b) A school board designated as a permit officer under par. (a) may assign the dutie…

103.25 Permits and identification cards. (1) A minor under 16 years of age shall not be employed or permitted to work at any street trade unless the minor’s employer first obtains from the department or a permit officer a street trade permit and the minor first obtains an identif…

103.26 Refusal or revocation of permits and identification cards. (1) The department or permit officer may refuse to grant a street trade permit and identification card to a minor who seems physically unable to perform the work or whose school record indicates that the minor shou…

103.27 Duties of employers of minors in street trades. (1) Every employer of minors in street trades shall keep a record for each minor of his or her name, address and date of birth. (2) Every employer shall receive and file a street trade permit authorizing employment of each mi…

103.275 Duties of employers in house-to-house street trades. (1) CERTIFICATION REQUIRED. No person may do any of the following without obtaining a certificate under sub. (2): (a) Act as a house-to-house employer. (b) Recruit or offer employment to a minor to conduct street trades…

103.28 Enforcement. (1) Sections 103.21 to 103.31 shall be enforced by the department. Police and school attendance officers of cities, towns, villages and school districts shall assist the department in enforcement by questioning minors seen on the streets engaged in street trad…

103.29 Penalties. (1) Any employer who employs or permits the employment of any minor in street trades in violation of ss. 103.21 to 103.31 or of any order issued thereunder or who hinders or delays the department or any school attendance or police officer in the performance of t…

103.30 Penalty on newspapers for allowing minors to loiter around premises. A newspaper publisher or printer or person having for sale newspapers or magazines shall not permit any minor under 18 years of age to loiter or remain around any premises where the newspapers or magazine…

103.31 may be required to forfeit not less than $25 nor more than $1,000 for each day of the first offense and, for the 2nd or subsequent violation of ss. 103.21 to 103.31 within 5 years, as measured from the dates the violations initially occurred, may be fined not less than $25…

103.32 Recovery of arrears of wages. The department, on behalf of the minor, may sue the employer under s. 109.09 for the recovery of any arrears of wages to which the minor is entitled under this chapter. History: 1971 c. 271, 307; 1975 c. 380 s. 5.

103.33 Discriminatory acts; street trades. Section 111.322 (2m) applies to discharge and other discriminatory acts against an employee arising in connection with any proceeding under s. 103.28 or 103.32. History: 1989 a. 228. 103.34 Regulation of traveling sales crews. (1) DEFI- …

103.34 (1) (f). History: 2017 a. 327.

103.35 Information required for licensure. No state office, department, board, examining board, affiliated credentialing board, commission, council or independent agency in the executive branch, the legislature or the courts may, as a condition for receiving an occupational or pr…

103.36 Employer right to solicit salary information of prospective employees; statewide concern; uniformity. (1) An employer may solicit information regarding the salary history of prospective employees. (2) The legislature finds that the provision of an employer right to solicit…

103.37 Certain requirements to obtaining employment prohibited. (1m) In this section: (a) “Employee” means a person who may be permitted, required or directed by an employer, in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit, to engage in any employment. (b) “Employer” means …

103.38 Eight-hour work day; applicability. (1) Subject to sub. (2), in all engagements to labor in any manufacturing or mechanical business if there is no express contract to the contrary, a day’s work shall consist of 8 hours and all engagements or contracts for labor in a manuf…

103.43 Fraudulent advertising for labor. (1) (a) No person may influence, induce, persuade or attempt to influence, induce, persuade or engage a worker to change from one place of employment to another in this state or to accept employment in this state, and no person may bring a…

103.45 Time checks; penalty. All persons paying wages in time checks or paper, other than legal money, shall make those time checks or that paper payable in some designated place of May 22, 2026, are designated by NOTES. (Published 5-22-26) 103.45 EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS business …

103.455 Deductions for faulty workmanship, loss, theft or damage. No employer may make any deduction from the wages due or earned by any employee, who is not an independent contractor, for defective or faulty workmanship, lost or stolen property or damage to property, unless the …

103.457 Listing deductions from wages. An employer shall state clearly on the employee’s pay check, pay envelope, or paper accompanying the wage payment the amount of and reason for each deduction from the wages due or earned by the employee, except such miscellaneous deductions …

103.46 Contracts; promises to withdraw from or not to join labor, employers’ or cooperative organizations are void. Every undertaking or promise, whether written or Updated 23-24 Wis. Stats. 26 oral, express or implied, constituting or contained in any of the following is declare…

103.465 Restrictive covenants in employment contracts. A covenant by an assistant, servant or agent not to compete with his or her employer or principal during the term of the employment or agency, or after the termination of that employment or agency, within a specified territor…

103.503 Substance abuse prevention on public works and public utility projects. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Accident” means an incident caused, contributed to, or otherwise involving an employee that resulted or could have resulted in death, personal injury, or propert…