Compensation for personal service
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 216 Wis. 2d 243 - Pfister v. Milwaukee Economic Development Corp. (1998)
Most recently applied in Gerczak v. Estate of Gerczak (June 2005)
1979 c. 323; 1985 a. 220; 1995 a. 27 s. 9130 (4); 1997 a. 3.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Any action to recover unpaid salary, wages or other compensation for personal services, except actions to recover fees for professional services and except as provided in sub. (2), shall be commenced within 2 years after the cause of action accrues or be barred.
(2) An action to recover wages under s. 109.09 shall be commenced within 2 years after the claim is filed with the department of workforce development or be barred.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.