City of Milwaukee v. Department of Industry & Human Relations

The Milwaukee Police Association (MPA) and the City of Milwaukee have for years included in their collective bargaining agreements a provision allowing police officers injured while on duty to elect to receive eighty percent of their base salary as "injury pay" in lieu of worker's compensation. In a petition filed with the Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations under § 102.28(2)(c), STATS.,1 MPA asked the department to revoke the City's self-insurance of its worker's compensation liability. MPA used the administrative proceedings to attack Article 25 of the 1985-86 collective…