111.32 Definitions.
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111.32 Definitions. When used in this subchapter:
(1)“Arrest record” includes, but is not limited to, information indicating that an individual has been questioned, apprehended, taken into custody or detention, held for investigation, arrested, charged with, indicted or tried for any felony, misdemeanor or other offense pursuant to any law enforcement or military authority.
(2)“Commission” means the labor and industry review commission.
(2r)“Constituent group” includes a civic association, community group, social club, fraternal society, mutual benefit alliance, or labor organization.
(3)“Conviction record” includes, but is not limited to, information indicating that an individual has been convicted of any felony, misdemeanor or other offense, has been adjudicated delinquent, has been less than honorably discharged, or has been placed on probation, fined, imprisoned, placed on extended supervision or paroled pursuant to any law enforcement or military authority.
(3m)“Creed” means a system of religious beliefs, including moral or ethical beliefs about right and wrong, that are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views.
(4)“Department” means the department of workforce development.
(5)“Employee” does not include any individual employed by his or her parents, spouse, or child or any individual excluded under s. 452.38 .
(a)“Employer” means the state and each agency of the state and, except as provided in par.
(b), any other person engaging in any activity, enterprise or business employing at least one individual. In this subsection, “agency” means an office, department, independent agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, including the legislature and the courts.
(b)“Employer” does not include a social club or fraternal society under ch. 188 with respect to a particular job for which the club or society seeks to employ or employs a member, if the particular job is advertised only within the membership.
(7)“Employment agency” means any person, including this state, who regularly undertakes to procure employees or opportunities for employment for any other person.
(7m)“Genetic testing” means a test of a person’s genes, gene products or chromosomes, for abnormalities or deficiencies, including carrier status, that are linked to physical or mental disorders or impairments, or that indicate a susceptibility to illness, disease, impairment or other disorders, whether physical or mental, or that demonstrate genetic or chromosomal damage due to environmental factors.
(8)“Individual with a disability” means an individual who:
(a)Has a physical or mental impairment which makes achievement unusually difficult or limits the capacity to work;
(b)Has a record of such an impairment; or
(c)Is perceived as having such an impairment.
(9)“Labor organization” means:
(a)Any organization, agency or employee representation committee, group, association or plan in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours or other terms or conditions of employment; or