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The bill has drawn the opposition of organized labor groups and others, including an employment law attorney. Federal law does not require employers to offer lunch or rest breaks, and Pratt said ...
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s new laws for the new year are mostly notable because there are so few, and the changes are relatively small. Many states see hundreds of new laws with each ...
The Equal Rights Division administers the state's laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations, manages the state's family and medical leave law, and enforces laws on minimum wages, overtime pay, timely payment of wages, employment of minors, and notifications of business closings or mass layoffs.
As of 2017, twenty-six states in the United States do not carry break laws in their legislature, such as Texas and Florida. [12] The state of California requires that both meal and rest breaks be given to employees; workers in New York must be given meal breaks, but rest breaks are not required. [12]
A group campaigning for Kamala Harris served union workers in Wisconsin an “insulting” lunch — possibly put together by “prison labor” — as it made a pitch for the vice president last ...
2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill or the Wisconsin Budget Adjustment Act, [1] [2] is a controversial law enacted by the 100th Wisconsin Legislature which significantly limited the rights and compensation of state and local government employees in Wisconsin.
October 4, 2023: A man carrying a loaded pistol was arrested at the Wisconsin State Capitol while seeking a meeting with Wisconsin governor Tony Evers. The man made bail and returned later in the same day with a loaded rifle, and was arrested again. [6] December 22, 2023: The Wisconsin Supreme Court released their decision in the case of Clarke v.
This is an effort to rewrite the collective-bargaining laws." Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has proposed a plan that would end collective bargaining for a number of state and municipal workers on ...