Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 103 - Employment regulations.
103.37 - Certain requirements to obtaining employment prohibited.

103.37 Certain requirements to obtaining employment prohibited.
(1m) In this section:
(a) “Employee" means a person who may be permitted, required or directed by an employer, in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit, to engage in any employment.
(b) “Employer" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, legal representative, trustee, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, or any common carrier by rail, motor, water or air doing business in or operating within the state.
(2m) No employer may require any employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination required by the employer as a condition of employment.
(4) Any employer who violates this section may be fined not more than $100 for each violation. The department shall enforce this section.
History: 1977 c. 29 ss. 1034, 1035, 1654 (9) (a); 1977 c. 418; 1983 a. 189 ss. 155, 329 (4); 1993 a. 112; 1997 a. 253.
The state, its political subdivisions, and the counties are not employers under this section. 69 Atty. Gen. 103.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 103 - Employment regulations.

103.001 - Definitions.

103.005 - Powers, duties and jurisdiction of department.

103.007 - Local regulation of hours of labor and overtime; statewide concern; uniformity.

103.01 - Hours of labor; definitions.

103.02 - Hours of labor.

103.025 - Hours of labor; compensatory time.

103.03 - Violations; penalty.

103.04 - Labor and industry review commission.

103.05 - Hiring reporting system; state directory of new hires.

103.06 - Worker classification compliance.

103.10 - Family or medical leave.

103.11 - Bone marrow and organ donation leave.

103.12 - Local regulation of employment benefits; statewide concern; uniformity.

103.13 - Records open to employee.

103.14 - Grooming requirement; notification.

103.15 - Restrictions on use of an HIV test.

103.16 - Seats for employees; penalty.

103.165 - Employee's cash bonds to be held in trust; duty of employer; penalty.

103.17 - Mutual forfeit.

103.18 - Threat or promise to influence vote.

103.20 - Penalty.

103.21 - Street trades; definitions.

103.22 - General standards and powers of the department.

103.23 - Age minimum.

103.24 - Hours of work.

103.245 - Designation of a permit officer.

103.25 - Permits and identification cards.

103.26 - Refusal or revocation of permits and identification cards.

103.27 - Duties of employers of minors in street trades.

103.275 - Duties of employers in house-to-house street trades.

103.28 - Enforcement.

103.29 - Penalties.

103.30 - Penalty on newspapers for allowing minors to loiter around premises.

103.31 - Penalty on parent or guardian.

103.32 - Recovery of arrears of wages.

103.33 - Discriminatory acts; street trades.

103.34 - Regulation of traveling sales crews.

103.35 - Information required for licensure.

103.36 - Employer right to solicit salary information of prospective employees; statewide concern; uniformity.

103.37 - Certain requirements to obtaining employment prohibited.

103.38 - Eight-hour work day; applicability.

103.43 - Fraudulent advertising for labor.

103.45 - Time checks; penalty.

103.455 - Deductions for faulty workmanship, loss, theft or damage.

103.457 - Listing deductions from wages.

103.46 - Contracts; promises to withdraw from or not to join labor, employers' or cooperative organizations are void.

103.465 - Restrictive covenants in employment contracts.

103.503 - Substance abuse prevention on public works and public utility projects.

103.505 - Collective bargaining; definitions.

103.51 - Public policy as to collective bargaining.

103.52 - “ Yellow-dog" contracts.

103.53 - Lawful conduct in labor disputes.

103.535 - Unlawful conduct in labor controversies.

103.54 - Responsibility for unlawful acts.

103.545 - Recruitment of strikebreakers.

103.55 - Public policy as to labor litigation.

103.56 - Injunctions: conditions of issuance; restraining orders.

103.57 - Clean hands doctrine.

103.58 - Injunctions: contents.

103.59 - Injunctions: appeals.

103.60 - Contempt cases.

103.61 - Punishment for contempt.

103.64 - Employment of minors; definitions.

103.65 - General standards for employment of minors.

103.66 - Powers and duties of the department relating to employment of minors.

103.67 - Minimum ages in various employments.

103.68 - Hours of labor.

103.695 - Designation of a permit officer.

103.70 - Permits necessary for minors; exceptions.

103.71 - Conditions for issuance of permits.

103.72 - Refusal and revocation of permits.

103.73 - Form and requisites of permit; as evidence.

103.74 - Duties of employers of minors.

103.75 - Certificates of age.

103.76 - Proof of age in court.

103.78 - Minors in public exhibitions, radio and television broadcasts, modeling.

103.79 - Minor golf caddies.

103.80 - Inspection.

103.805 - Fees; permits and certificates of age.

103.81 - Advertising; penalty.

103.82 - Penalties.

103.83 - Discriminatory acts; employment of minors.

103.85 - One day of rest in seven.

103.86 - Employee welfare funds: default in payments.

103.87 - Employee not to be disciplined for testifying.

103.88 - Absence from work of volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical services practitioner, emergency medical responder, or ambulance driver.

103.90 - Definitions.

103.905 - Department's duties.

103.91 - Migrant labor contractors.

103.915 - Migrant work agreements.

103.917 - Safe transportation.

103.92 - Certification of migrant labor camps.

103.925 - Access and entry.

103.926 - Vacating residence.

103.93 - Wages.

103.935 - Hours of labor.

103.94 - Civil action by migrant workers.

103.945 - Nonwaiver of rights.

103.96 - Retaliation prohibited.

103.965 - Correction period.

103.967 - Duties of council on migrant labor.

103.968 - Council review of rules.

103.969 - New contract compliance.

103.97 - Penalties.