Wisconsin's overtime pay law can be found in the Chapter 103 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
103.01 Hours of labor; definitions. In ss. 103.01 to 103.03:
(1)
(a) "Employer" means every person having control or custody of any employment
or place of employment.
(b) "Employer" includes the state, its political subdivisions and any office, department, independent
agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body in state or local government created or authorized
to be created by the constitution or any law, including the legislature and the courts.
(2) "Employment" means any trade, occupation or process of manufacture, or any
method of carrying on such trade or occupation in which any person may be engaged, or for any place of employment.
(3) "Place of employment" means any manufactory, mechanical or mercantile establishment, beauty parlor,
laundry, restaurant, confectionary store, or telegraph or telecommunications office or exchange, any express or
transportation establishment or any hotel.
103.02 Hours of labor.
No person may be employed or be permitted to work in any place of employment or at any
employment for such period of time during any day, night or week, as is dangerous or prejudicial to the person's
life, health, safety or welfare. The department shall investigate, ascertain, determine and fix such reasonable
classification, and promulgate rules fixing a period of time, or hours of beginning and ending work during any
day, night or week, which shall be necessary to protect the life, health, safety or welfare of any person, or to
carry out the purposes of ss. 103.01 to 103.03. The department shall, by rule, classify such periods of time
into periods to be paid for at regular rates and periods to be paid for at the rate of at least one and one-half
times the regular rates. Such investigations, classifications and orders shall be made as provided in s.
103.005 and the penalties under s. 103.005 (12) shall apply to and be imposed for any violation of ss. 103.01 to
103.03. Such orders shall be subject to review in the manner provided in ch. 227. Section 111.322 (2m)
applies to discharge or other discriminatory acts arising in connection with any proceeding under this section.
103.025 Hours of labor; compensatory time.
(1) In this section:
(a) "Compensatory time" means hours during which an employee is not working,
which are not counted as hours worked during the workweek or other work period classified by the department by
rule promulgated under s. 103.02 for purposes of calculating overtime compensation, and for which the employee
is compensated at the employee's regular rate of pay.
(b) "Employee" has the meaning given in s. 104.01 (2).
(c) "Overtime compensation" means the compensation required to be paid for hours worked during
periods that the department has classified, by rule promulgated under s. 103.02, as periods to be paid for at the
rate of at least 1.5 times an employee's regular rate of pay.
(2) An employer described in s. 103.01 (1) (b) may provide an employee, in lieu of overtime
compensation, compensatory time off as permitted under 29 USC 207 (o), as amended to April 15, 1986.
103.03 Violations; penalty.
The employment of any person in any employment or place of employment at any time other
than the permissible hours of labor shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section. Every day
for each person employed, and every week for each person employed, during which any employer fails to observe or
to comply with any order of the department, or to perform any duty enjoined by ss. 103.01 to 103.03, shall constitute
a separate offense.