Wisconsin
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Wisconsin laws addressing employer recruiting practices. It covers recruiting methods and sources, advertising dos and don'ts, laws regarding job applications, considerations for recruiting minors, avoiding discrimination risk and more.
Wisconsin's wage and hour law requires covered employers to pay nonexempt employees overtime for every hour worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. This guide provides an overview of Wisconsin employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to this law.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Wisconsin laws surrounding affirmative action in the workplace. It covers the law for private employers, the law for state contractors and apprenticeship programs.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Wisconsin laws related to background checks and other forms of preemployment screening and testing, including ban the box laws, fair chance laws, credit check laws, preemployment drug testing, physical fitness and medical testing.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Wisconsin laws applicable to employers when interviewing and selecting prospective employees. It covers acceptable and unacceptable interview questions, laws restricting certain types of inquiries, and how antidiscrimination laws apply during the interview and selection process.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Wisconsin law regarding employer liability for negligent hiring and negligent retention. It discusses how to minimize the risk of negligent hiring and retention claims through various forms of screening and covers legal limitations on these screening methods.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Wisconsin requirements regarding workplace security, including those related to trade secrets, data breaches and guns and weapons in the workplace.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Wisconsin laws related to employment offers. It discusses verbal and written employment offers, conditional employment offers, and withdrawal of employment offers.
This guide provides an overview of Wisconsin law regarding jury duty leave for employees. It covers employer obligations to provide leave, employee eligibility for leave, compensation during leave, and prohibited actions against employees who perform jury service.
Wisconsin law requires covered employers to provide eligible employees and dependents the option of continuing health care coverage under certain circumstances. This guide helps HR professionals understand requirements related to continued health care coverage and conversion coverage.