Chapter DWD 102

Dampproofing contractors

Concrete coating, glazing or sealing

Waterproofing contractors

Weather stripping installation

Window shade and blind installation

238910 Site preparation contractors

Boring, for building construction

Core drilling and test boring for construction

Grave excavation contractors

Test boring for construction

238990 All other specialty trade contractors

Artificial turf installation

Cable splicing (except electrical or fiber optic)

Cleaning building interiors during and immediately after construction

Dewatering contractors

Fence installation (except electronic containment fencing for pets)

House moving (i.e., raising from one site, moving, and placing on a new foundation)

Manufactured (mobile) home set up and tie-down work

Posthole digging

Sandblasting, building exterior

Scaffold erecting and dismantling

DWD 102.02(3) (3) 

DWD 102.02(3)(a) (a) If the employer’s primary type of business activity is specified in Figure DWD 102.02 (2), the department may not consider the employer as being within the provisions of s. 108.18 (2) (c), Stats.

DWD 102.02(3)(am) (am) The department shall determine that the provisions of s. 108.18 (2) (c), Stats., apply to an employer whose primary type of business activity in this state is listed in the 2022 version of the North American Industry Classification System, Sector 23 – Construction but not in Figure DWD 102.02 (2), if any of the following factors apply:

DWD 102.02(3)(am)1. 1. The primary business activity of the employer in this state involves the improvement of real property rather than improvement or refurbishing of personal property.

DWD 102.02(3)(am)2. 2. Employers within the same listing in the 2022 version of the North American Industry Classification System, Sector 23 – Construction as the employer customarily suspend or significantly curtail business operations in this state for regularly recurring periods because of climatic conditions or because of the seasonal nature of the employment.

DWD 102.02 Note Note: The North American Industry Classification System standard is available at https://www.census.gov/naics/. The 2022 version is on file with the legislative reference bureau and with the bureau of legal affairs of the department’s division of unemployment insurance at 201 E. Washington Ave, E-300, Madison, Wisconsin 53703.

DWD 102.02 History History: Cr. Register, June, 1990, No. 414, eff. 7-1-90; emerg. renum. from ILHR 110.15, eff. 2-19-93; renum. from ILHR 110.15, Register, May, 1993, No. 449, eff. 6-1-93; am. (1), Register, September, 2000, No. 537, eff. 10-1-00; CR 18-033: am. (1), (3) (a) 1. and 2., renum. (3) (a) (intro.) to (3) (am) (intro.) and am., r. (3) (b) Register May 2019 No. 761, eff. 6-1-19; correction in numbering of (3) (a) 1. and 2. made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 1., Stats., Register May 2019 No. 761; CR 22-010: am. (2), r. and recr. Figure 2, am. (3) (am) (intro.), 2. Register June 2022 No. 798, eff. 7-1-22.

DWD 102.03 DWD 102.03 Payors of sickness or accident disability payments: contribution rates. A person not previously subject to the contribution requirements under ch. 108, Stats., which becomes an employer subject to these provisions because of sickness or accident disability payments under s. DWD 110.06, shall be subject to the initial contribution rate under s. 108.18, Stats., for each of the first 3 calendar years.

DWD 102.03 History History: Emerg. renum. from ILHR 110.11 (8) and am., eff. 2-19-93; renum. from ILHR 110.11 (8) and am., Register, May, 1993, No. 449, eff. 6-1-93; am. Register, September, 2000, No. 537, eff. 10-1-00.