For nearly two decades, Sanjuana Maltos would travel to Wisconsin from her home in Texas to work from June to November for the state’s cannery companies.

Practitioners don’t know exactly what to expect from Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate the independent commission that now reviews administrative-law judges’ decisions in workers’ compensation, jobless-benefits and equal-rights cases.

A proposal before state officials could have modified the procedures that unemployment claimants must go through to appeal unfavorable decisions to Wisconsin's circuit courts.

The independent body that reviews administrative law decisions has slammed the state Department of Workforce Development over proposed changes to circuit court reviews of unemployment benefit decisions.

2011AP2787 Avante v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.

2011AP2532 Mofoco Enterprises Inc. v. Wisconsin State Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al.

2011AP2899 Walter v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.

2011AP2531 Sallis v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.

2011AP2636 Grede Foundries, Inc., v. LIRC

2010AP1785 Aldrich v. LIRC

2010AP208 Aurora Consolidated Health Care v. LIRC

2011AP1824-FT Friedrich v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al.

2011AP938 Kierstead v. LIRC

2011AP329-FT Waldvogel Trucking v. LIRC and Berceau

2011AP837 MacNeil v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.

A little while back, I was informed that somebody who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers had injured himself playing basketball and would be out for the beginning of the baseball season, if not longer.

Under the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act ("WFEA"), the circumstances of the pending criminal charge must be substantially related to the circumstances of the team member's particular job before a job offer may be rescinded due an arrest and/or conviction record. What exactly does that mean?