103.13(6)(g)
(g) Records relevant to any other pending claim between the employer and the employe which may be discovered in a judicial proceeding.
103.13(7)
(7) Copies. The right of the employe or the employe's representative to inspect records includes the right to copy or receive a copy of records. The employer may charge a reasonable fee for providing copies of records, which may not exceed the actual cost of reproduction.
103.13(7m)
(7m) Employment discrimination. Section 111.322 (2m) applies to discharge and other discriminatory acts in connection with any proceeding under this section.
103.13(8)
(8) Penalty. Any employer who violates this section may be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each violation. Each day of refusal or failure to comply with a duty under this section is a separate violation.
103.14
103.14
Grooming requirement; notification. Each employer shall, at the time of hiring, notify each employe about any hairstyle, facial hair or clothing requirement.
103.15
103.15
Restrictions on use of a test for HIV. 103.15(1)(a)
(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 authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, including the legislature and the courts.
103.15(1)(am)
(am) "HIV" means any strain of human immunodeficiency virus, which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
103.15(1)(b)
(b) "HIV infection" means the pathological state produced by a human body in response to the presence of HIV.
103.15(1)(c)
(c) "State epidemiologist" means the individual designated by the secretary of health and family services as the individual in charge of communicable disease control for this state.
103.15(2)
(2) Notwithstanding
ss. 227.01 (13) and
227.10 (1), unless the state epidemiologist determines and the secretary of health and family services declares under
s. 250.04 (1) or
(2) (a) that individuals who have HIV infections may, through employment, provide a significant risk of transmitting HIV to other individuals, no employer or agent of an employer may directly or indirectly:
103.15(2)(a)
(a) Solicit or require as a condition of employment of any employe or prospective employe a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV.
103.15(2)(b)
(b) Affect the terms, conditions or privileges of employment or terminate the employment of any employe who obtains a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV.
103.15(3)
(3) Any agreement by an employer or agent of the employer and an employe or prospective employe offering employment or any pay or benefit to an employe or prospective employe in return for taking a test for the presence of HIV, antigen or nonantigenic products of HIV or an antibody to HIV is prohibited, except as provided under
sub. (2) (intro.).
103.15 Annotation
Police and fire commission is "employer" under this section and may not test paramedic candidates for HIV virus.
77 Atty. Gen. 181.
103.15 Annotation
The rights of an AIDS victim in Wisconsin. 70 MLR 55 (1986).
103.16
103.16
Seats for workers; penalty. Every person or corporation employing workers in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in the state of Wisconsin shall provide suitable seats for the workers so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. Any person or corporation who violates this section may be fined not less than $10 nor more than $30 for each offense.
103.16 History
History: 1975 c. 94 s.
91 (17).
103.17
103.17
Mutual forfeit. Any person or corporation engaged in manufacturing, which requires from its employes, under penalty of forfeiture of a part of the wages earned by them, a notice of intention to leave such employ, shall be liable to the payment of a like forfeiture if the person or corporation discharges, without similar notice, a person in such employ except for incapacity or misconduct, unless in case of a general suspension of labor in the person's or corporation's shop or factory or in the department thereof wherein such employe is engaged.
103.17 History
History: 1993 a. 492.
103.18
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 give or withhold the voter's vote at an election.
103.18 History
History: 1993 a. 492.
103.19
103.19
Children in shows. No license shall be granted for a theatrical exhibition or public show in which children under fifteen years of age are employed as acrobats, contortionists or in any feats of gymnastics or equestrianism, when in the opinion of the board of officers authorized to grant licenses such children are employed in such manner as to corrupt their morals or impair their physical health.
103.20 History
History: 1985 a. 29;
1985 a. 73 s.
8.
103.21(1)
(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 "employe," and each independent news agency or (in the absence of all such agencies) each selling agency of a publisher or (in the absence of all such agencies) each publisher, whose newspapers or magazines the minor sells or distributes, is an "employer" of the minor. Every minor engaged in any other street trade is in an "employment" and an "employe," and each person furnishing the minor articles for sale or distribution or regularly furnishing the minor material for blacking boots is the minor's "employer".
103.21(1g)
(1g) "House-to-house employer" means an employer who employs minors, either directly or through an agent who need not be an employe of the employer, to conduct street trades from house to house through personal contact with prospective customers.
103.21(1r)
(1r) "Municipality" means a city, village or town.
103.21(2)
(2) "Nonprofit organization" means an organization described in section
501 (c) of the internal revenue code.
103.21(3)
(3) "Permit officer" means any person designated by the department to issue street trade permits.
103.21(6)
(6) "Street trade" means the selling, offering for sale, soliciting for, collecting for, displaying or distributing any articles, goods, merchandise, commercial service, posters, circulars, newspapers or magazines, or the blacking of boots, on any street or other public place or from house to house.
103.22
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. Except as the department exercises those powers, the employment of minors in street trades shall be in accordance with
ss. 103.23 to
103.31.
103.22 History
History: 1971 c. 271.
103.23(1)(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.
103.23(2)
(2) A minor under 12 years of age may work in a fund-raising sale for a nonprofit organization, a public school or a private school under the following conditions:
103.23(2)(a)
(a) Each minor must give the nonprofit organization, public school or private school written approval from the minor's parent or guardian.
103.23(2)(b)
(b) Each minor under 9 years of age or each group containing one or more minors under 9 years of age must be physically accompanied by a parent or a person at least 16 years of age.
103.24
103.24
Hours of work. The department shall determine and fix reasonable hours of employment for minors in street trades.
103.24 History
History: 1971 c. 271.
103.245
103.245
Designation of a permit officer. 103.245(1)(a)(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.
103.245(1)(b)
(b) A school board designated as a permit officer under
par. (a) may assign the duties of permit officer to an officer or employe of the school district.
103.245(2)
(2) The department may designate persons other than school boards as permit officers, regardless of whether any school board refuses designation as a permit officer under
sub. (1) (a).
103.245 History
History: 1987 a. 187.
103.25
103.25
Permits and identification cards. 103.25(1)
(1) A minor 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 identification card, both issued in accordance with this section.
103.25(2)
(2) If upon investigation, the department determines that there are practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships in carrying out
sub. (1), the department may by general or special order make reasonable exceptions or modifications with due regard for the life, health, safety and welfare of minors employed in street trades. The investigation and orders shall be made as provided under
s. 103.005. These orders are subject to review as provided in
ch. 227.
103.25(3)
(3) The form and requisites of street trade permits shall be the same as those specified for child labor permits in
s. 103.73, except as provided in
sub. (3m) and except that the permits may be issued on special street trade permit blanks of a form determined by the department. Each minor for whom a street trade permit is issued shall be provided by the department or the permit officer issuing the permit with a street trade identification card of a form determined by the department. He or she shall carry the identification card while engaged in street trade employment and shall not transfer it to any other person.
103.25(3m)(a)(a) In addition to the information required for a street trade permit under
sub. (3), a street trade permit obtained by a house-to-house employer shall contain the minor's permanent home address and social security number.
103.25(3m)(b)
(b) A house-to-house employer shall have a copy of the street trade permit issued for the minor stamped or endorsed by the clerk of any municipality where the minor conducts a street trade from house to house.
103.25(3m)(c)
(c) This subsection does not apply to employment of a minor by a newspaper publisher or in a fund-raising sale for a nonprofit organization, a public school or a private school.
103.25(4)
(4) In relation to employment in street trades a permit issued under this section has the same force and effect as a permit issued under
ss. 103.64 to
103.82; and the failure to obtain a permit when required under this section subjects the employer to the same penalties and liabilities as failure to obtain a permit when required under
ss. 103.64 to
103.82.
103.25(5)
(5) This section does not apply to employment of a minor in a fund-raising sale for a nonprofit organization, a public school or a private school.
103.26
103.26
Refusal or revocation of permits and identification cards. 103.26(1)(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 should not undertake such employment in addition to school, or whenever in the judgment of the department or permit officer the best interests of the minor would be served by such refusal.
103.26(2)
(2) The department may revoke a street trade permit and identification card if the minor for whom such permit was issued is found by the department to have worked when prohibited under
s. 103.24, if it appears to the department that such permit was improperly or illegally issued or if in their judgment the best interests of the minor would be served by such revocation. The department shall by registered mail notify such minor and the minor's employer of such revocation. On receipt of such notice the employer shall immediately return the revoked permit and discontinue the employment of such minor, and the minor shall immediately return the revoked identification card to the permit officer.
103.26 History
History: 1973 c. 183;
1993 a. 492.
103.27
103.27
Duties of employers of minors in street trades. 103.27(1)(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.
103.27(2)
(2) Every employer shall receive and file a street trade permit authorizing employment of each minor by him or her before the minor is permitted to work; and shall keep the permit on file and allow inspection of the permit at any time by the department or any police or school attendance officer.
103.27(3)
(3) This section does not apply to employment of a minor in a fund-raising sale for a nonprofit organization, a public school or a private school.
103.275
103.275
Duties of employers in house-to-house street trades. 103.275(1)(1)
Certification required. No person may do any of the following without obtaining a certificate under
sub. (2):
103.275(1)(b)
(b) Recruit or offer employment to a minor to conduct street trades from house to house.
103.275(2)
(2) Application and issuance of certificate. 103.275(2)(a)(a) A person shall apply to the department for a house-to-house employer certificate by submitting an application to the department. The department shall furnish applications upon request and applications shall contain all of the following:
103.275(2)(a)1.
1. The name of the applicant and the address and telephone of its principal place of business.
103.275(2)(a)2.
2. If the applicant is a corporation, the date and place of its incorporation.
103.275(2)(a)2L.
2L. If the applicant is a limited liability company, the date and place of its organization.
103.275(2)(a)3.
3. The name and permanent home address of the sole proprietor, managing partner, managers or principal officers of the applicant.
103.275(2)(a)4.
4. The names, permanent home addresses and dates of birth of any of the applicant's employes, agents or representatives who supervise minor employes conducting street trades from house to house.
103.275(2)(a)5.
5. The employer identification numbers assigned to the applicant by the internal revenue service and the department of revenue.
103.275(2)(a)6.
6. Any documents required by the department to prove that the applicant has complied with
sub. (3).
103.275(2)(a)7.
7. Any other information that the department considers relevant.
