What Are The Permanent Records Required To Be Kept By The Employer?
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DWD 272.11 Wisconsin Administrative Code provides that: Employers in the State of Wisconsin must make and keep payroll or other records for three years for each of their employees which contain:
- Name and address.
- Date of birth.
- Date of entering and leaving employment
- Time of beginning and ending of work each day.
- Time of beginning and ending of meal periods.
- When employees' meal periods are required or when such meal periods are to be deducted from work time.
- This requirement shall not apply when work is of such a nature that production or business activity ceases on a regularly scheduled basis.
- Total number of hours per day and per week.
- Rate of pay and wages paid each payroll period.
- The amount of and reason for each deduction from the wages earned.
- Output of employee, if paid on other than a time basis.
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