Calculadora de Indemnización — Wisconsin

Leyes de indemnización por despido en Wisconsin

Wisconsin has its own mini-WARN statute, the Business Closing and Mass Layoff Notification Law (Wis. Stat. §109.07), which generally tracks federal WARN's sixty-day notice requirement and lowers some coverage thresholds. The statute applies to employers with fifty or more employees in Wisconsin and is triggered by business closings or mass layoffs of twenty-five or more employees within a single establishment. Failure to give notice triggers back pay and benefits for each day of deficient notice up to sixty days.

Final wages in Wisconsin are governed by Wis. Stat. §109.03, which requires payment of all earned wages by the next regular payday following termination. Accrued vacation is wages if payable under company policy. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development enforces the statute and provides for unpaid wages plus liquidated damages of up to fifty percent of the unpaid amount plus attorney's fees under §109.11 for willful nonpayment.

On non-competes, Wis. Stat. §103.465 governs employee restrictive covenants. Non-competes must be reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer's business, reasonable in duration, geographic scope, and scope of activity, and not impose undue hardship on the employee. Wisconsin courts apply a strict "all or nothing" rule — they void rather than reform clauses that fail reasonableness on any element.

On discrimination, the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (Wis. Stat. §111.31 et seq.) applies to all employers regardless of size — broader than federal Title VII — and provides protections across federal Title VII categories plus state-specific protections for sexual orientation, marital status, arrest record, and conviction record. The Equal Rights Division of the Department of Workforce Development administers state-level claims.

Wisconsin's economy is anchored by manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture and food processing (Kraft Heinz, dairy), insurance (Northwestern Mutual, American Family), and paper. Northwestern Mutual and Northwestern Mutual's alumni community have set local norms for finance and insurance severance practices that materially exceed the state's legal floor.

¿Cuánto reciben los trabajadores de Wisconsin?

Wisconsin employees in healthcare, finance, insurance, and manufacturing management typically receive two to three weeks of severance per year of service for individual contributors, with Northwestern Mutual and other large insurance and finance employers running higher. Manufacturing front-line workers come in closer to the modeled midpoint.

Referencias por industria en Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, Milwaukee finance and insurance pay above the modeled midpoint; manufacturing front-line and agriculture come in below.

Preguntas frecuentes — indemnización en Wisconsin