Wis. Stat. § 103.005 — WI Code / Chapter 103 / Section 103.005
Section 103.005
Status: in_force

(c) The department or any party may in any investigation cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for similar depositions in civil actions in circuit courts. The expense incurred by the state in the taking of such depositions shall be charged against the proper appropriations for the department.

(cm) A party’s attorney of record may issue a subpoena to compel the attendance of a witness or the production of evidence. A subpoena issued by an attorney must be in substantially the same form as provided in s. 805.07 (4) and must be served in the manner provided in s. 805.07 (5) . The attorney shall, at the time of issuance, send a copy of the subpoena to the appeal tribunal or other representative of the department responsible for conducting the proceeding.

(d) A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings had before the department on any investigation and all testimony shall be taken down by the stenographer appointed by the department.

(14)

(a) The department shall administer and enforce, except where otherwise provided for in the statutes, the laws relating to employment and employment offices.

(b) The department shall investigate, ascertain and determine such reasonable classifications of persons and employments as shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of chs. 103 to 106 .

(c) Any commissioner, the secretary or any deputy of the department may enter any place of employment or public building for the purpose of collecting facts and statistics and bringing to the attention of every employer or owner any law relating to the regulation of employment or any order of the department and any failure on the part of such employer or owner to comply with that law or order. No employer or owner may refuse to admit any commissioner, the secretary or any deputy of the department to his or her place of employment or public building.

(d) Every employer and every owner shall furnish to the department all information required by the department to administer and enforce chs. 103 to 106 , and shall provide specific answers to all questions that the department asks relating to any information the department requires.

(e) Any employer receiving from the department any form requesting information that the department requires to administer and enforce chs. 103 to 106 , along with directions to complete the form, shall properly complete the form and answer fully and correctly each question asked in the form. If the employer is unable to answer any question, the employer shall give a good and sufficient reason for his or her inability to answer the question. The employer’s answers shall be verified under oath by the employer, or by the president, secretary or other managing officer of the corporation, if the employer is a corporation, and the completed form shall be returned to the department at its office within the period fixed by the department.

(14m)

(a) In this subsection, “qualified independent researcher” means a faculty member of a university who satisfies all of the following:

1. The faculty member has an approved protocol from an institutional review board for human subjects research to work with data containing personal information for the purposes of evaluating the program under s. 119.23 .

2. The faculty member has received from the state and properly managed data containing personal information for the purposes of evaluating the program under s. 119.23 before July 14, 2015.

(b) The department shall, to the extent permitted under federal law, permit a qualified independent researcher to have access to any database maintained by the department for the purpose of cross-matching information contained in any such database with a database that both is in the possession of the qualified independent researcher and contains information regarding pupils participating in the program under s. 119.23 . The department may charge a fee to the qualified independent researcher for the information that does not exceed the cost incurred by the department to provide the information.

(15) The department may establish a schedule of fees for publications and seminars provided by the department for which no fee is otherwise authorized, required or prohibited by statute. Fees established under this subsection for publications and seminars provided by the department may not exceed the actual cost incurred in providing those publications and seminars. If the department receives unanticipated proceeds from a statewide labor and management conference provided by the department that exceed the actual cost of the conference, the department may use those unanticipated proceeds to provide grants for local labor and management conferences, educational activities and other activities to promote positive relations between labor and management.

(16) Each of the commissioners, the secretary or any deputy secretary may certify to official acts, and take testimony.

(20) The department shall establish a procedure for the department to provide to the state public defender and the department of administration any information that the department may have concerning an individual’s wages to assist the state public defender and the department of administration in collecting payment ordered under s. 48.275 (2) , 757.66 , 973.06 (1) (e) or 977.076 (1) .

(21) The department shall distribute all of the funds under s. 20.445 (1) (cr) to community action agencies and organizations, including any of the 11 federally recognized tribal governing bodies in this state and limited-purpose agencies, in proportion to the share of funds actually allocated to these entities under 42 USC 1315 and from other federal and private foundation sources that provide funds for job creation and development for individuals with low incomes.

History: 1995 a. 27 ss. 2030 , 3649r , 3747 , 9130 (4) ; 1995 a. 215 , 404 ; 1997 a. 3 , 191 , 237 ; 2001 a. 61 ; 2007 a. 20 ss. 1489 , 2648 , 2649 ; 2009 a. 3 , 292 ; 2013 a. 36 ; 2015 a. 55 ; 2017 a. 11 .