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WI Stat § 111.372 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.372 - Use of genetic testing in employment situations.

111.372  Use of genetic testing in employment situations. (1) No employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency may directly or indirectly:(a) Solicit, require or administer a genetic test to any person as a condition of employment, labor organization membership or licensure.(b) Affect the terms, conditions or privileges of employment, labor organization membership or licensure or terminate the employment, labor organization membership or licensure of any person who obtains a genetic test. (2) Except as provided in sub. (4), no person may sell to or interpret for an employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency a genetic test of an employee, labor organization member or licensee or of a prospective employee, labor organization member or licensee. (3) Any agreement between an employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency and another person offering employment, labor organization membership, licensure or any pay or benefit to that person in return for taking a genetic test is prohibited. (4) This section does not prohibit the genetic testing of an employee who requests a genetic test and who provides written and informed consent to taking a genetic test for any of the following purposes:(a) Investigating a worker's compensation claim under ch. 102.(b) Determining the employee's susceptibility or level of exposure to potentially toxic chemicals or potentially toxic substances in the workplace, if the employer does not terminate the employee, or take any other action that adversely affects any term, condition or privilege of the employee's employment, as a result of the genetic test.History:  1991 a. 117.The New Genetic World and the Law. Derse. Wis. Law. Apr. 2001.
WI Stat § 111.375 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.375 - Department to administer.

111.375  Department to administer. (1) This subchapter shall be administered by the department. The department may make, amend and rescind such rules as are necessary to carry out this subchapter. The department or the commission may, by such agents or agencies as it designates, conduct in any part of this state any proceeding, hearing, investigation or inquiry necessary to the performance of its functions. The department shall preserve the anonymity of any employee who is the aggrieved party in a complaint of discrimination in promotion, compensation or terms and conditions of employment, of unfair honesty testing or of unfair genetic testing against his or her present employer until a determination as to probable cause has been made, unless the department determines that the anonymity will substantially impede the investigation. (2) This subchapter applies to each agency of the state.History:  1975 c. 94; 1977 c. 29, 196; 1979 c. 221, 319, 355; 1981 c. 334 s. 13; Stats. 1981 s. 111.375; 1991 a. 117; 2003 a. 33.Administrative remedies available under the fair employment act, subch. II of ch. 111, are the exclusive remedies for violations. The act does not provide a remedy for emotional distress resulting from discriminatory firing. Bachand v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., 101 Wis. 2d 617, 305 N.W.2d 149 (Ct. App. 1981).
WI Stat § 111.38 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.38 - Investigation and study of discrimination.

111.38  Investigation and study of discrimination. Except as provided under s. 111.375 (2), the department shall: (1) Investigate the existence, character, causes and extent of discrimination in this state and the extent to which the same is susceptible of elimination. (2) Study the best and most practicable ways of eliminating any discrimination found to exist, and formulate plans for the elimination thereof by education or other practicable means. (3) Publish and disseminate reports embodying its findings and the results of its investigations and studies relating to discrimination and ways and means of reducing or eliminating it. (4) Confer, cooperate with and furnish technical assistance to employers, labor unions, educational institutions and other public or private agencies in formulating programs, educational and otherwise, for the elimination of discrimination. (5) Make specific and detailed recommendations to the interested parties as to the methods of eliminating discrimination. (6) Transmit to the legislature from time to time recommendations for any legislation which may be deemed desirable in the light of the department's findings as to the existence, character and causes of any discrimination.History:  1977 c. 196; 1981 c. 334 ss. 18, 25 (2); Stats. 1981 s. 111.38.
WI Stat § 111.395 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.395 - Judicial review.

111.395  Judicial review. Findings and orders of the commission under this subchapter are subject to review under ch. 227. Orders of the commission shall have the same force as orders of the department under chs. 103 to 106 and may be enforced as provided in s. 103.005 (11) and (12) or specifically by a suit in equity. In any enforcement action the merits of any order of the commission are not subject to judicial review. Upon such review, or in any enforcement action, the department of justice shall represent the commission.History:  1977 c. 29, 418; 1981 c. 334 s. 23; Stats. 1981 s. 111.395; 1995 a. 27.
WI Stat § 111.50 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.50 - Declaration of policy.

111.50  Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state that it is necessary and essential in the public interest to facilitate the prompt, peaceful and just settlement of labor disputes between public utility employers and their employees which cause or threaten to cause an interruption in the supply of an essential public utility service to the citizens of this state and to that end to encourage the making and maintaining of agreements concerning wages, hours and other conditions of employment through collective bargaining between public utility employers and their employees, and to provide settlement procedures for labor disputes between public utility employers and their employees in cases where the collective bargaining process has reached an impasse and stalemate and as a result thereof the parties are unable to effect such settlement and which labor disputes, if not settled, are likely to cause interruption of the supply of an essential public utility service. The interruption of public utility service results in damage and injury to the public wholly apart from the effect upon the parties immediately concerned and creates an emergency justifying action which adequately protects the general welfare.The application of the open meetings law to duties of WERC is discussed. 68 Atty. Gen. 171.
WI Stat § 111.51 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.51 - Definitions.

111.51  Definitions. When used in this subchapter: (1) “Arbitrators" refers to the arbitrators provided for in this subchapter. (2) “Collective bargaining" means collective bargaining of or similar to the kind provided for by subch. I. (3) “Commission" means the employment relations commission. (4) “Essential service" means furnishing water, light, heat, gas, electric power, public passenger transportation or communication, or any one or more of them, to the public in this state. (5) (a) “Public utility employer" means any employer, other than the state or any political subdivision thereof, engaged in the business of furnishing water, light, heat, gas, electric power, public passenger transportation or communication, or any one or more of them, to the public in this state; and shall be considered to include a rural electrification cooperative association engaged in the business of furnishing any one or more of such services or utilities to its members in this state.(b) Nothing in this subsection shall be interpreted or construed to mean that rural electrification cooperative associations are brought under or made subject to ch. 196 or other laws creating, governing or controlling public utilities, it being the intent of the legislature to specifically exclude rural electrification cooperative associations from the provisions of such laws.(c) This subchapter does not apply to railroads nor railroad employees.History:  1983 a. 189; 1995 a. 225.
WI Stat § 111.52 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.52 - Settlement of labor disputes through collective bargaining and arbitration.

111.52  Settlement of labor disputes through collective bargaining and arbitration. It shall be the duty of public utility employers and their employees in public utility operations to exert every reasonable effort to settle labor disputes by the making of agreements through collective bargaining between the parties, and by maintaining the agreements when made, and to prevent, if possible, the collective bargaining process from reaching a state of impasse and stalemate.
WI Stat § 111.53 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.53 - Appointment of conciliators and arbitrators.

111.53  Appointment of conciliators and arbitrators. Within 30 days after July 25, 1947, the commission shall appoint a panel of persons to serve as conciliators or arbitrators under this subchapter. No person shall serve as a conciliator and arbitrator in the same dispute. Each person appointed to said panels shall be a resident of this state, possessing, in the judgment of the commission, the requisite experience and judgment to qualify such person capably and fairly to deal with labor dispute problems. All such appointments shall be made without a consideration of the political affiliations of the appointee. Each appointee shall take an oath to perform honestly and to the best of the appointee's ability the duties of conciliator or arbitrator, as the case may be. Any appointee may be removed by the commission at any time or may resign his or her position at any time by notice in writing to the commission. Any vacancy in the panels shall be filled by the commission within 30 days after such vacancy occurs. Such conciliators and arbitrators shall be paid reasonable compensation for services and for necessary expenses, in an amount to be fixed by the commission, such compensation and expenses to be paid out of the appropriation made to the commission by s. 20.425 upon such authorizations as the commission may prescribe.History:  1993 a. 492.
WI Stat § 111.54 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.54 - Conciliation.

111.54  Conciliation. If in any case of a labor dispute between a public utility employer and its employees, the collective bargaining process reaches an impasse and stalemate, with the result that the employer and the employees are unable to effect a settlement thereof, then either party to the dispute may petition the commission to appoint a conciliator from the panel, provided for by s. 111.53. Upon the filing of such petition, the commission shall consider the same, and if in its opinion, the collective bargaining process, notwithstanding good faith efforts on the part of both sides to such dispute, has reached an impasse and stalemate and such dispute, if not settled, will cause or is likely to cause the interruption of an essential service, the commission shall appoint a conciliator from the panel to attempt to effect the settlement of such dispute. The conciliator so named shall expeditiously meet with the disputing parties and shall exert every reasonable effort to effect a prompt settlement of the dispute.
WI Stat § 111.55 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.55 - Conciliator unable to effect settlement; appointment of arbitrators.

111.55  Conciliator unable to effect settlement; appointment of arbitrators. If a conciliator named under s. 111.54 is unable to effect a settlement of a labor dispute between a public utility employer and its employees within a 15-day period after the conciliator's appointment, the conciliator shall report that fact to the commission. The commission, if it believes that a continuation of the dispute will cause or is likely to cause the interruption of an essential service, shall submit to the parties the names of either 3 or 5 persons from the panel provided for in s. 111.53. Each party shall alternately strike one name from such list of persons. The person or persons left on the list shall be appointed by the commission as the arbitrator or arbitrators to hear and determine such dispute.History:  1993 a. 492; 1995 a. 225.
WI Stat § 111.56 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.56 - Existing state of affairs to be maintained.

111.56  Existing state of affairs to be maintained. During the pendency of proceedings under this subchapter existing wages, hours, and conditions of employment shall not be changed by action of either party without the consent of the other.History:  1979 c. 110 s. 60 (9).
WI Stat § 111.58 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.58 - Standards for arbitration.

111.58  Standards for arbitration. The arbitrator shall not make any award which would infringe upon the right of the employer to manage the employer's business or which would interfere with the internal affairs of the union.History:  1993 a. 492.
WI Stat § 111.59 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.59 - Filing order with clerk of circuit court; period effective; retroactivity.

111.59  Filing order with clerk of circuit court; period effective; retroactivity. (1) In this section, “order" means the findings, decision and order of the arbitrator. (2) The arbitrator shall hand down his or her order within 30 days after his or her appointment; except that the parties may agree to extend, or the commission may for good cause extend the period for not to exceed an additional 30 days. If the arbitrators do not agree, then the decision of the majority shall constitute the order in the case. The arbitrator shall furnish to each of the parties and to the public service commission a copy of the order. A certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county wherein the dispute arose or where the majority of the employees involved in the dispute resides. (3) Unless the order is reversed upon a petition for review filed pursuant to s. 111.60, the order, together with any other agreements that the parties may themselves have reached, shall become binding upon, and shall control the relationship between the parties from the date on which the order is filed with the clerk of the circuit court, as provided in sub. (2). The order shall continue effective for one year from that date, but the order may be changed by mutual consent or agreement of the parties. No order of the arbitrators relating to wages or rates of pay shall be retroactive to a date before the date of the termination of any contract which may have existed between the parties, or, if there was no prior contract, to a date before the day on which the demands involved in the dispute were presented to the other party. The question whether or not new contract provisions or amendments to an existing contract are retroactive to the terminating date of a present contract, amendments or part thereof, shall be matter for collective bargaining or decision by the arbitrator.History:  1993 a. 492; 1995 a. 225.
WI Stat § 111.60 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.60 - Judicial review of order of arbitrator.

111.60  Judicial review of order of arbitrator. (1) Either party to the dispute may, within 15 days from the date such order is filed with the clerk of the court, petition the court for a review of such order on the ground that:(a) The parties were not given reasonable opportunity to be heard;(b) The arbitrator exceeded the arbitrator's powers;(c) The order is not supported by the evidence; or(d) The order was procured by fraud, collusion or other unlawful means. (2) A summons to the other party to the dispute shall be issued as provided by law in other civil cases; and either party shall have the same rights to a change of venue from the county, or to a change of judge, as provided by law in other civil cases. (3) The judge of the circuit court shall review the order solely upon the grounds for review hereinabove set forth and shall affirm, reverse, modify or remand such order to the arbitrator as to any issue or issues for such further action as the circumstances require.History:  1993 a. 492.
WI Stat § 111.61 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.61 - Commission to establish rules.

111.61  Commission to establish rules. The commission shall establish appropriate rules and regulations to govern the conduct of conciliation and arbitration proceedings under this subchapter.
WI Stat § 111.62 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.62 - Strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, lockouts, unlawful; penalty.

111.62  Strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, lockouts, unlawful; penalty. It shall be unlawful for any group of employees of a public utility employer acting in concert to call a strike or to go out on strike, or to cause any work stoppage or slowdown which would cause an interruption of an essential service; it also shall be unlawful for any public utility employer to lock out the employer's employees when such action would cause an interruption of essential service; and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to instigate, to induce, to conspire with, or to encourage any other person or persons to engage in any strike or lockout or slowdown or work stoppage which would cause an interruption of an essential service. Any violation of this section by any member of a group of employees acting in concert or by any employer or by any officer of an employer acting for such employer, or by any other individual, shall constitute a misdemeanor.History:  1993 a. 492.
WI Stat § 111.63 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.63 - Enforcement.

111.63  Enforcement. The commission shall enforce compliance with this subchapter and to that end may file an action in the circuit court of the county in which any violation of this subchapter occurs to restrain and enjoin the violation and to compel the performance of the duties imposed by this subchapter. In any action described in this section, ss. 103.505 to 103.61 do not apply.History:  1997 a. 253.
WI Stat § 111.64 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.64 - Construction.

111.64  Construction. (1) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to require any individual employee to render labor or service without the employee's consent, or to make illegal the quitting of the employee's labor or service or the withdrawal from the employee's place of employment unless done in concert or agreement with others. No court shall have power to issue any process to compel an individual employee to render labor or service or to remain at the employee's place of employment without the employee's consent. It is the intent of this subchapter only to forbid employees of a public utility employer to engage in a strike or to engage in a work slowdown or stoppage in concert, and to forbid a public utility employer to lock out the employer's employees, where such acts would cause an interruption of essential service. (2) All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are to the extent of such conflict concerning the subject matter dealt with in this subchapter supplanted by the provisions of this subchapter.History:  1993 a. 492.
WI Stat § 111.815 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.815 - Duties of state.

111.815  Duties of state. (1) In the furtherance of this subchapter, the state shall be considered as a single employer and employment relations policies and practices throughout the state service shall be as consistent as practicable. The division shall negotiate and administer collective bargaining agreements. To coordinate the employer position in the negotiation of agreements, the division shall maintain close liaison with the legislature relative to the negotiation of agreements and the fiscal ramifications of those agreements. Except with respect to the collective bargaining units specified in s. 111.825 (1r) and (1t), the division is responsible for the employer functions of the executive branch under this subchapter, and shall coordinate its collective bargaining activities with operating state agencies on matters of agency concern. The legislative branch shall act upon those portions of tentative agreements negotiated by the division that require legislative action. With respect to the collective bargaining units specified in s. 111.825 (1r), the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System is responsible for the employer functions under this subchapter. With respect to the collective bargaining units specified in s. 111.825 (1t), the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is responsible for the employer functions under this subchapter. With respect to the collective bargaining unit specified in s. 111.825 (1r) (ef), the governing board of the charter school established by contract under s. 118.40 (2r) (cm), 2013 stats., is responsible for the employer functions under this subchapter. (2) The administrator of the division shall, together with the appointing authorities or their representatives, represent the state in its responsibility as an employer under this subchapter except with respect to negotiations in the collective bargaining units specified in s. 111.825 (1r) and (1t). Except as provided in s. 36.115 (7), the administrator of the division shall establish and maintain, wherever practicable, consistent employment relations policies and practices throughout the state service.  (3) With regard to collective bargaining activities involving employees who are assistant district attorneys, the administrator of the division shall maintain close liaison with the secretary of administration.History:  1977 c. 196; 1983 a. 27 s. 2200 (15); 1985 a. 42; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 27; 2001 a. 16, 104; 2003 a. 33; 2009 a. 28; 2011 a. 10, 32; 2013 a. 20 ss. 2365m, 9448; 2013 a. 166; 2015 a. 55.
WI Stat § 111.82 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.82 - Rights of employees.

111.82  Rights of employees. Employees have the right of self-organization and the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing under this subchapter, and to engage in lawful, concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Employees also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities. A general employee has the right to refrain from paying dues while remaining a member of a collective bargaining unit. History:  1971 c. 270; 1995 a. 27; 2011 a. 10.
WI Stat § 111.845 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 111 - Employment relations.|111.845 - Wage deduction prohibition.

111.845  Wage deduction prohibition. The employer may not deduct labor organization dues from a general employee's earnings. History:  2011 a. 10.The creation of this section by 2011 Wis. Act 10 did not violate equal protection or free speech protections. Wisconsin Education Ass'n Council v. Walker, 705 F.3d 640 (2013).