The Home Town Advantage - The HTA bulletin is a bimonthly newsletter reporting on efforts nationwide to stop chain store proliferation and support locally owned, independent retail businesses. Click Here to Subscribe In 1993, Wisconsin enacted the following law to prevent cities from using industrial development revenue bonds to lure companies and jobs from other parts of the state.
Cities have the power to finance industrial development by issuing bonds.
This is an excerpt of the relevant portions of the state's statutes, which are available in full on the Wisconsin legislature's web site . Job shifting requirements. Increases the employer's total number of jobs at a project site after the construction of the project compared to the employer's total number of jobs at that project site before the construction of the project. The offer of employment for the new job shall have compensation and benefit terms at least as favorable as those of the lost job. The employer shall certify compliance with this subsection to the department, to the governing body of each municipality within which a lost job exists and to any collective bargaining agent in this state with which the employer has a collective bargaining agreement at the project site or at a site where a lost job exists.