No person may be employed or be permitted to work in any place of employment or at any employEMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS 103.055 ment for such period of time during any day, night or week, as is dangerous or prejudicial to the person’s life, health, safety or welfare. The department shall investigate, ascertain, determine and fix such reasonable classification, and promulgate rules fixing a period of time, or hours of beginning and ending work during any day, night or week, which shall be necessary to protect the life, health, safety or welfare of any person, or to carry out the purposes of ss. 103.01 to 103.03. The department shall, by rule, classify such periods of time into periods to be paid for at regular rates and periods to be paid for at the rate of at least one and onehalf times the regular rates. Such investigations, classifications and orders shall be made as provided in s. 103.005 and the penalties under s. 103.005 (12) shall apply to and be imposed for any violation of ss. 103.01 to 103.03. Such orders shall be subject to review in the manner provided in ch. 227. Section 111.322 (2m) applies to discharge or other discriminatory acts arising in connection with any proceeding under this section.
Wis. Stat. § 103.02
Hours of labor
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Wakeen v. Hoffman House, Inc. (1983)
Most recently applied in 384 F. Supp. 3d 991 - Paczkowski v. My Choice Family Care, Inc. (April 2019)
1971 c. 228 s. 43; 1975 c. 94; 1989 a. 228; 1995 a. 27.
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