103.38 Eight-hour work day; applicability.
(1) Subject to sub. (2), in all engagements to labor in any manufacturing or mechanical business if there is no express contract to the contrary, a day's work shall consist of 8 hours and all engagements or contracts for labor in a manufacturing or mechanical business shall be so construed.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any contract for labor by the week, month or year.
History: 1997 a. 253.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 103 - Employment regulations.
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.
103.025 - Hours of labor; compensatory time.
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.
103.18 - Threat or promise to influence vote.
103.21 - Street trades; definitions.
103.22 - General standards and powers of the department.
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.
103.30 - 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.
103.37 - 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.
103.465 - 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.
103.61 - 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.
103.695 - 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.
103.76 - Proof of age in court.
103.78 - Minors in public exhibitions, radio and television broadcasts, modeling.
103.805 - Fees; permits and certificates of age.
103.81 - Advertising; penalty.
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.
103.905 - Department's duties.
103.91 - Migrant labor contractors.
103.915 - Migrant work agreements.
103.917 - Safe transportation.
103.92 - Certification of migrant labor camps.
103.94 - Civil action by migrant workers.
103.945 - Nonwaiver of rights.
103.96 - Retaliation prohibited.
103.967 - Duties of council on migrant labor.
103.968 - Council review of rules.