Gersbach v. City of Madison

¶1 The City of Madison appeals an order granting summary judgment dismissing its claims against five stagehands employed by the City. The City's claims seek recovery from the employees of contributions to the Wisconsin Retirement System (the retirement system) that the City made on behalf of the employees. The City made these contributions after the state Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF) determined in 2013 that the stagehands had been employees eligible to participate in the retirement system, one of them as long ago as 1980. We will refer to these contributions as the "employee back…