Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 108 - Unemployment insurance and reserves.
108.101 - Effect of finding, determination, decision or judgment.

108.101 Effect of finding, determination, decision or judgment.
(1) No finding of fact or law, determination, decision or judgment made with respect to rights or liabilities under this chapter is admissible or binding in any action or administrative or judicial proceeding in law or in equity not arising under this chapter, unless the department is a party or has an interest in the action or proceeding because of the discharge of its duties under this chapter.
(2) No finding of fact or law, determination, decision or judgment made with respect to rights or liabilities under s. 108.09 is binding in an action or proceeding under s. 108.10.
(3) No finding of fact or law, determination, decision or judgment made with respect to rights or liabilities under s. 108.10 is binding in an action or proceeding under s. 108.09.
(4) No finding of fact or law, determination, decision or judgment in any action or administrative or judicial proceeding in law or equity not arising under this chapter made with respect to the rights or liabilities of a party to an action or proceeding under this chapter is binding in an action or proceeding under this chapter.
(5) Notwithstanding sub. (4), a final order or judgment of conviction for a crime entered by a court is binding on the convicted person in an action or proceeding under this chapter that relates to the criminal conviction. A person convicted of a crime is precluded from denying the essential allegations of the criminal offense that is the basis for the conviction in an action or proceeding under this chapter.
History: 1989 a. 77; 1991 a. 89; 2021 a. 231.
No administrative decision made under a chapter other than ch. 108 is binding on an unemployment insurance claim. A worker's compensation decision does not bind an administrative hearing on an unemployment insurance claim or the commission reviewing it. Goetsch v. DWD, 2002 WI App 128, 254 Wis. 2d 807, 646 N.W.2d 389, 01-2777.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 108 - Unemployment insurance and reserves.

108.01 - Public policy declaration.

108.015 - Construction.

108.02 - Definitions.

108.025 - Coverage of certain corporate officers and limited liability company members.

108.03 - Payment of benefits.

108.04 - Eligibility for benefits.

108.05 - Amount of benefits.

108.06 - Benefit entitlement.

108.062 - Work-share programs; benefit payments.

108.065 - Determination of employer.

108.066 - Seasonal employers and seasons.

108.067 - Professional employer organizations and leasing agreements.

108.068 - Treatment of limited liability companies and members.

108.07 - Liability of employers.

108.08 - Notification.

108.09 - Settlement of benefit claims.

108.095 - False statements or representations to obtain benefits payable to other persons.

108.10 - Settlement of issues other than benefit claims.

108.101 - Effect of finding, determination, decision or judgment.

108.105 - Suspension of agents.

108.11 - Agreement to contribute by employees void.

108.12 - Waiver of benefit void.

108.13 - Deductions from benefit payments.

108.133 - Testing for controlled substances.

108.135 - Income tax withholding.

108.14 - Administration.

108.141 - Extended benefits.

108.142 - Wisconsin supplemental benefits.

108.145 - Disaster unemployment assistance.

108.15 - Benefits for public employees.

108.151 - Financing benefits for employees of nonprofit organizations.

108.152 - Financing benefits for employees of Indian tribes.

108.155 - Liability of reimbursable employers for identity theft.

108.16 - Unemployment reserve fund.

108.161 - Federal administrative financing account.

108.162 - Employment security buildings and equipment.

108.17 - Payment of contributions.

108.18 - Contributions to the fund.

108.19 - Contributions to the administrative account and unemployment interest payment and program integrity funds.

108.20 - Administrative account.

108.205 - Quarterly wage reports.

108.21 - Record and audit of payrolls.

108.22 - Timely reports, notices and payments.

108.221 - Misclassification; administrative assessments.

108.223 - Financial record matching program.

108.225 - Levy for delinquent contributions or benefit overpayments.

108.227 - License denial, nonrenewal, discontinuation, suspension and revocation based on delinquent unemployment insurance contributions.

108.23 - Preference of required payments.

108.24 - Penalties.

108.245 - Recovery of erroneous payments from fund.

108.26 - Saving clause.