Wisconsin
This guide provides an overview of legal requirements related to group life insurance and disability benefits in Wisconsin.
This guide provides an in-depth review of Wisconsin family and medical leave requirements under the Wisconsin Family and Medical Leave Act and an overview of pregnancy discrimination requirements with respect to leaves of absence.
Wisconsin considers different factors to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under its workers compensation law and unemployment insurance law. This guide provides an in-depth review of Wisconsin employment law requirements with respect to independent contractors.
Updated to include law regarding "captive audience meetings."
Wisconsin employers wishing to limit or prohibit weapons in the workplace, prevent workplace violence, provide notice that weapons will not be permitted inside the workplace and show their compliance with the Wisconsin law that gives employees the right to keep a lawfully possessed firearm inside a personal vehicle on company premises and even when driving in the course of employment should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Wisconsin employers with enclosed workplace areas should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Wisconsin employers that employ minor employees (those under age 18) and seek to inform the minor employees and their supervisors about legally required meal breaks and to demonstrate compliance with Wisconsin child labor laws should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Wisconsin employers seeking to educate employees about the availability of military leave for federal active military duty and certain federal government service and to demonstrate their compliance with Wisconsin's military leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Wisconsin employers with 11 or more regular full-time or part-time (i.e., nontemporary) employees in Wisconsin that seek to educate employees who qualify about the availability of leave for Civil Air Patrol missions and to demonstrate compliance with the law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.