Governor's budget proposes scrapping state panel that resolves employment disputes
A state panel that handles thousands of disputes between employers and employees each year — and whose roots date back more than a century — would be abolished under a provision of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
The two-year spending plan calls for eliminating the Labor and Industry Review Commission and its 26 1/2 full-time-equivalent positions.
The commission, whose three members are appointed to six-year terms by the governor, is an independent agency that provides a “quasi-judicial forum” to resolve disputes involving unemployment insurance, workers compensation and equal rights.
In 2015, the panel issued 2,143 decisions. Only 102 of the decisions, or 4.75 percent, were appealed to circuit court.
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