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WI Stat § 105.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 105 - Employment agents.|105.11 - Schedule of fees or charges.

105.11  Schedule of fees or charges. (1) Every applicant for a license or renewal of a license to engage in the business of an employment agent shall file with the department, within a time fixed by the department, a schedule of the fees or charges made by such employment agent to applicants for employment for any services rendered together with all rules or regulations that may, in any manner, affect the fees charged or to be charged for any service. Fees charged to applicants for employment and such rules or regulations affecting applicants for employment may be changed only with the approval of the department and when changed shall be filed with the department. (2) The department may, under s. 105.14, fix a schedule of maximum fees charged by employment agents to applicants for employment for services rendered. (3) An employment agent shall not charge, demand, collect or receive a greater compensation for any service performed by the employment agent than is specified in the schedules filed with the department, and no registration fee may be charged without permission from the department. (5) No employer shall charge an employee or applicant for employment placed by an agency any amount as a direct or indirect placement fee that is greater than that permitted by departmental rule. If the total charges made by the employer and the employment agent to the employee exceed the allowable maximum set by the department, the department may, under s. 109.09 (1), recover the overcharge from the employer plus a penalty equal to the overcharge. (6) No private employment agency may charge the applicant for employment a fee for counseling or require the applicant to purchase a counseling service as a condition for accepting the applicant's application.History:  1973 c. 226; 1977 c. 26 s. 75; 1989 a. 220; 1993 a. 492.
WI Stat § 105.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 105 - Employment agents.|105.12 - Prohibited practices.

105.12  Prohibited practices. No applicant shall be placed in any employment by an employment agent in violation of any statute, order or rule of the department. Examinations given by a private employment agency may be for job-related skills only.History:  1973 c. 226.
WI Stat § 105.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 105 - Employment agents.|105.14 - Regulations; records; reports.

105.14  Regulations; records; reports. The department may fix reasonable rules for the conduct of the business of any employment agent or employment agency as are necessary to carry out this chapter. The department may fix reasonable classifications of employments or positions and fix a reasonable scale of fees to be charged by employment agents to applicants for employment for each classification within the restrictions contained in this chapter, and may fix reasonable classifications of the business of employment agents, and make its rules and orders conform to these classifications. It may prescribe the form of books, registers or records to be kept by the employment agent, the receipts or copies of contracts to be handed to persons referred to employment, the reports to be made to the department, the refunds to be made to applicants who failed to secure employment; and it may order any other measures reasonably necessary to protect the public and persons seeking employment against fraud, misrepresentation or any other unauthorized act of any employment agent.History:  1973 c. 226; 1989 a. 220.
WI Stat § 105.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 105 - Employment agents.|105.15 - General powers of department applicable; penalties.

105.15  General powers of department applicable; penalties. Such investigations, classifications, and orders shall be made as provided in s. 103.005 and the penalties specified in s. 103.005 (12) shall apply to and be imposed for any violation of ss. 105.01 to 105.115 or 105.13 to 105.15. The department may also order a person who operates an employment agency in violation of s. 105.05 (1) to make refunds as provided under s. 105.16 (2). Orders issued under this section are subject to review in the manner provided in ch. 227.History:  1971 c. 228 s. 43; 1989 a. 220; 1991 a. 32; 1995 a. 27; 2005 a. 197.
WI Stat § 105.16 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 105 - Employment agents.|105.16 - Late fees and reports; failure to obtain license; refund.

105.16  Late fees and reports; failure to obtain license; refund. (1) Every employment agent shall submit all fees, license renewal applications and reports within the time limitations or due dates specified by the department. A penalty fee of $5 per day for each day such fee, application or report is overdue may be levied by the department. (2) If a person acts as an employment agent without the license required under s. 105.05 or after the person's license is suspended or revoked under s. 105.13, the department may order the person to refund all fees and charges that the person collected while unlicensed.History:  1973 c. 226; 1989 a. 220.
WI Stat § 106.001 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.001 - Definitions.

106.001  Definitions. In this subchapter: (1) “Apprentice" means any person who enters into an apprentice contract with the department and with a sponsor or an apprenticeship committee acting as the agent of a sponsor. (2) “Apprentice contract" means any contract or agreement of service, express or implied, between an apprentice, the department, and a sponsor or an apprenticeship committee acting as the agent of a sponsor whereby an apprentice is to receive from or through the apprentice's employer, in consideration for the apprentice's services in whole or in part, instruction in any trade, craft, or business. (2m) “Apprenticeship committee" means a joint apprenticeship committee or a nonjoint apprenticeship committee designated by a sponsor to administer an apprenticeship program. (4) “Apprenticeship program" means a program approved by the department providing for the employment and training of apprentices in a trade, craft, or business that includes a plan containing all of the terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment, selection, employment, and training of apprentices as required under this subchapter, including the apprentice contract requirements under s. 106.01. (5) “Employer" means any person employing an apprentice, whether or not the person is a party to an apprentice contract with the apprentice. (6) “Joint apprenticeship committee" means an apprenticeship committee that consists of an equal number of representatives of employers and of representatives of employees who are represented by a collective bargaining agent. (7) “Nonjoint apprenticeship committee" means an apprenticeship committee that consists of representatives of employers, but not of representatives of employees who are represented by a collective bargaining agent. (8) “Sponsor" means any employer, organization of employees, association of employers, committee, or other person operating an apprenticeship program and in whose name the apprenticeship program is approved by the department.History:  1999 a. 83; 2009 a. 291.
WI Stat § 106.015 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.015 - Apprentice–to–journeyworker ratios.

106.015  Apprentice–to–journeyworker ratios. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), the department may not prescribe, enforce, or authorize, whether through the promulgation of a rule, the issuance of a general or special order, the approval of an apprenticeship program or apprentice contract, or otherwise, a ratio of apprentices to journeyworkers for apprenticeship programs or apprentice contracts that requires more than one journeyworker for each apprentice. (2) The prohibition under sub. (1) does not apply with respect to apprentices whose employment is governed by a collective bargaining agreement.History:  2017 a. 148.
WI Stat § 106.025 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.025 - Plumber apprenticeships.

106.025  Plumber apprenticeships. (1) The department may prescribe the conditions under which a person may serve a plumbing apprenticeship, as to preliminary and technical college attendance requirements, level of supervision of an apprentice, the character of plumbing work in accordance with ch. 145, and the credit for school attendance in serving the apprenticeship. (2) Every person commencing a plumbing apprenticeship shall enter into an apprentice contract under s. 106.01. (3) After the expiration of an apprenticeship term, no apprentice may engage in the business of plumbing either as an apprentice or as a journeyman plumber unless the apprentice secures a journeyman plumber's license. In case of failure to pass the examination for the license, he or she may continue to serve as an apprentice but not beyond the time for reexamination for a journeyman plumber's license, as prescribed by the rules of the department.History:  1971 c. 40; 1971 c. 154 s. 79 (2); 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 60; 1993 a. 399; 1995 a. 286 ss. 1, 2; Stats. 1995 s. 106.025; 1999 a. 83; 2009 a. 291; 2017 a. 148.
WI Stat § 106.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.07 - Participation by high school seniors in apprenticeship programs.

106.07  Participation by high school seniors in apprenticeship programs. (1) Definition. In this section, “high school senior” means an individual who is 16 years of age or over and who is enrolled in grade 12 in public school. (2)  Eligibility. A high school senior may enter into an apprentice contract under s. 106.01 that provides for the high school senior to participate in an apprenticeship program if the school district in which the high school senior is enrolled does all of the following:(a) Certifies that the high school senior is expected to graduate high school no later than the end of the current school year.(b) Certifies that the high school senior's proposed on-the-job training schedule allows adequate time for the high school senior to complete any high school graduation requirements no later than the end of the current school year.(c) Agrees to award high school credit to the high school senior for the hours of related instruction provided by a sponsor under s. 106.01 (6) (b) that the high school senior completes during the first year of the apprentice contract.(d) Agrees to award high school credit to the high school senior for the hours of on-the-job training the high school senior completes during the first year of the apprentice contract. (3)  On-the-job training during first year of apprentice contract. In addition to any other provisions that are required to be included in an apprentice contract under rules promulgated by the department under s. 106.01 (11) (a), the apprentice contract described in sub. (2) shall provide all of the following:(a) That, during the first year of the apprentice contract, the employer will employ the high school senior on a part-time basis during any periods of time when the school district in which the high school senior is enrolled is in session.(b) That the high school senior must complete a minimum of 450 hours of on-the-job training during the first year of the apprentice contract. (4)  High school graduation requirement. No later than one year after the date on which the apprentice contract described in sub. (2) is executed, the high school senior shall provide all parties to the apprentice contract evidence that the high school senior earned his or her high school diploma or high school equivalency diploma. If the high school senior fails to timely provide that evidence, the department may terminate the apprentice contract under s. 106.01 (5p). (5)  Coordination among state agencies. The state workforce development board established under 29 USC 3111, the technical college system board, and the department of public instruction shall assist the department of workforce development in implementing this section and in coordinating participation by high school seniors in apprenticeship programs under this section. (6)  Rules. The department may promulgate rules to implement this section.History:  2017 a. 273.
WI Stat § 106.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.09 - Public employment offices.

106.09  Public employment offices. (1) The department shall establish and conduct free employment agencies, license and supervise the work of private employment offices, do all in its power to bring together employers seeking employees and working people seeking employment, make known the opportunities for self-employment in this state, aid in procuring employment for the blind adults of the state, aid in inducing minors to undertake promising skilled employments, provide industrial or agricultural training for vagrants and other persons unsuited for ordinary employments, and encourage wage earners to insure themselves against distress from unemployment. It shall investigate the extent and causes of unemployment in this state and the remedies therefor in this and other countries, and it shall devise and adopt the most efficient means within its power to avoid unemployment, to provide employment, and to prevent distress from involuntary idleness. (2) Any county, city, town or village may enter into an agreement with the department for such period of time as may be deemed desirable for the purpose of establishing and maintaining local free employment offices, and it shall be lawful for any county, city, town or village to appropriate and expend the necessary money and to permit the use of public property for the joint establishment and maintenance of such offices as may be agreed upon, or in counties containing 250,000 inhabitants or more in any city, town or village therein to purchase a site and construct necessary buildings. Provided, that in any county, city, village or town therein, wherein there is a citizens' committee on unemployment, such committee may rent, lease, purchase or construct necessary buildings for the joint establishment and maintenance of such free employment office, subject to the approval of such plans by the department. The department may establish such free employment offices as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of ch. 108. All expenses of such offices, or all expenses not defrayed by the county, city, town or village in which an office is located, shall be paid from the appropriations to the department provided in s. 20.445 (1) (ga) and (n). (3) The department may rent, furnish and equip, except as provided in sub. (2), such offices as may be needed in cities for the conduct of its affairs. All payments arising under this section shall be charged against the proper appropriation for the department. (5) The department is authorized and directed to cooperate with the U.S. employment service in the administration of its functions. (7) The department may, by rule, fix and collect fees for provision of employment services authorized but not funded by the U.S. employment service.History:  1971 c. 185 ss. 1, 7; 1971 c. 228 ss. 25, 42; Stats. 1971 s. 101.23; 1973 c. 90 s. 559; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (25) (a); 1981 c. 36 s. 45; 1983 a. 27; 1985 a. 29 ss. 1650, 3202 (29); 1995 a. 27 s. 3692; Stats. 1995 s. 106.09; 2003 a. 33.
WI Stat § 106.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.10 - Veterans job training.

106.10  Veterans job training. The department shall cooperate with the U.S. department of veterans affairs in the performance of functions prescribed in P.L. 79-679, 60 Stat. 934 and any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. The secretary may with the approval of the governor take all necessary steps in the making of leases or other contracts with the federal government in the adoption and execution of plans, methods and agreements to effectuate P.L. 79-679.History:  1971 c. 185 s. 1; 1971 c. 228; Stats. 1971 s. 101.25; 1977 c. 29, 272; 1989 a. 56; 1995 a. 27 s. 3693; Stats. 1995 s. 106.10.
WI Stat § 106.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.11 - Workforce investment programs.

106.11  Workforce investment programs. The department shall cooperate with the federal government in carrying out the purposes of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, 29 USC 2801 to 2945. In administering the programs authorized by that act the department shall, in cooperation with other state agencies and with local workforce development boards established under 29 USC 2832, establish a statewide workforce investment system to meet the employment, training, and educational needs of persons in this state. If a local workforce development board anticipates that there may be a business closing or mass layoff under s. 109.07 in the area served by that board, the board may prepare a list of resources available in that area that provide career planning, job search, job skills training, and other support services for affected employees, as defined in s. 109.07 (1) (a), including contact information for those resources, for distribution to those employees under s. 109.07 (1m) (a). History:  1985 a. 29 ss. 43, 45 to 48, 50, 51, 1651 to 1653, 3202 (22); 1993 a. 399, 446; 1995 a. 27 ss. 3694 to 3697, 9145 (1); Stats. 1995 s. 106.11; 1997 a. 27, 39, 112; 1999 a. 9; 2009 a. 87.
WI Stat § 106.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.12 - Employment and education program administration.

106.12  Employment and education program administration. The department shall plan, coordinate, administer, and implement the youth apprenticeship program under s. 106.13 (1) and such other employment and education programs as the governor may by executive order assign to the department. Notwithstanding any limitations placed on the use of state employment and education funds under this section or s. 106.13 or under an executive order assigning an employment and education program to the department, the department may issue a general or special order waiving any of those limitations on finding that the waiver will promote the coordination of employment and education services.History:  1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 27 s. 3701; 1995 Stats. s. 106.12; 1997 a. 27; 1999 a. 9; 2001 a. 16; 2003 a. 33; 2005 a. 25.
WI Stat § 106.125 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.125 - Early college credit program.

106.125  Early college credit program. On behalf of the school board of a school district and on behalf of the governing body of a participating private school, as defined in s. 118.55 (1) (c), the department of workforce development shall pay to the department of public instruction the costs of tuition for a pupil who attends an institution of higher education under the program under s. 118.55 as provided under s. 118.55 (5) (e) 2. and 3.History:  2017 a. 59.
WI Stat § 106.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.14 - Job centers.

106.14  Job centers. (1) The department shall provide a job center network throughout the state through which job seekers may receive comprehensive career planning, job placement, and job training information. (2) The department shall publicize and maintain on its job center website information related to the job program under s. 49.147 (3) so that employers and individuals seeking employment may obtain information about the program, including how to participate in it.History:  1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 27 ss. 3713, 3770m and 3770p; Stats. 1995 s. 106.14; 1997 a. 27; 1999 a. 9; 2001 a. 16; 2009 a. 333; 2011 a. 32; 2017 a. 365 s. 112.
WI Stat § 106.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 106 - Apprentice, employment and equal rights programs.|106.15 - Assistance for dislocated workers.

106.15  Assistance for dislocated workers. (1) Definitions. In this section:(a) “Council" means the council on workforce investment established under 29 USC 2821.(b) “Dislocated worker" has the meaning given in 29 USC 2801 (9).(c) “Dislocated worker committee" means the committee or other subunit of the council that assists the governor in providing employment and training activities to dislocated workers under 29 USC 2862 to 2864.(d) “Local plan" means a local plan required under 29 USC 2833 as a condition for a grant. (3)  Grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (m), the department shall make grants to persons providing employment and training activities to dislocated workers including all of the following: (a) Job search assistance, including participation in job clubs.(b) Training in job skills.(c) Support services, including but not limited to transportation assistance, relocation assistance, financial counseling, personal counseling and programs conducted in cooperation with employers or labor organizations. (4)  Grant approval. The department may award a grant under this section only if both of the following occur:(a) The dislocated workers committee approves the local plan or application for funding and refers its decision to the secretary.(b) After receiving a referral under par. (a), the secretary approves the local plan or application for funding. (5)  Local plan or application review. In reviewing local plans and applications for funding under this section, the dislocated workers committee and the secretary shall consider all of the following:(a) The severity of the need for the program in the community to be served when compared with the severity of need in other communities.(b) The appropriateness of the skill development or training to be provided, including whether the demand for that skill exceeds the supply.(c) Whether the program provides for labor organizations to participate in program planning.(d) Whether the program provides for coordination with other employment and training programs offered in the community in which the program will be offered. (6)  Rule making. The department shall promulgate rules to administer this section. The rules shall address eligible applicants and program providers, application requirements, criteria and procedures for awarding grants, reporting and auditing procedures and administrative operations. (7)  Funding. From the amounts appropriated under s. 20.445 (1) (m), all moneys received under 29 USC 2862 to 2864 shall be expended to fund grants and operations under this section.History:  1985 a. 153; 1987 a. 27; 1989 a. 31, 44; 1995 a. 27 ss. 3714, 3715; Stats. 1995 s. 106.15; 1999 a. 9; 2003 a. 33; 2011 a. 32.