Your Employer Must Allow You Time to Vote - Please Do So On Tuesday, August 9th

From: Jana Weaver [jweaver@wseu-24.org]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:33 PM
To: AFSCME Council 24 Leadership and Members
Subject: FW: Time off for voting

All,

Please see below from Peg Lautenschlager. On the last President's call this topic was discussed and we told you we would get you both the contract cite and the state statute that allows employees time off to vote if they are forced to work a double shift. The state statute is below, the contract cite is Article 13, Section 12/1. It is vitally important that members vote in the recall elections. If someone is forced to work during the entire time the election polls are open the employer must let them off to vote. If anyone is denied call your field representative or Council 24.

As you all know these recall elections are vitally important. Everyone must vote. Please remind your 2nd shifter to vote before they get to work. Every vote counts and we have to ensure that all our members vote!

One Day Longer,

Marty and Jana

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From: Peg Lautenschlager [mailto:lautenschlager@bauer-bach.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:49 PM
To: Jana Weaver
Subject: Time off for voting

As you can see below, Wis. Stat. s. 6.76 allows all employees up to three hours to vote.

6.76  Time off for voting.
(1)  Any person entitled to vote at an election is entitled to be absent from work while the polls are open for a period not to exceed 3 successive hours to vote. The elector shall notify the affected employer before election day of the intended absence. The employer may designate the time of day for the absence.
(2) No penalty, other than a deduction for time lost, may be imposed upon an elector by his or her employer by reason of the absence authorized by this section.
(3) This section applies to all employers including the state and all political subdivisions of the state and their employees, but does not affect the employees' right to holidays existing on June 28, 1945, or established after that date.

History: 1977 c. 394; 1991 a. 316.

Peggy A. Lautenschlager
Bauer & Bach, L.L.C.
123 East Main Street, Suite 300
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 260-0292 (o-direct)
(608) 260-0002 (fax)
(920) 602-6194 (cell)

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