Kraft Foods, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development

¶ 1. The Department of Workforce Development and eight individual claimants appeal a circuit court order which reversed the department's determination that the claimants' employer had violated the Wisconsin Family and Medical Leave Act (WFMLA). At issue is whether the department correctly concluded that the claimants could substitute paid sick leave for family leave commencing with the first day of family leave, irrespective of a "waiting period" which applied to Oscar Mayer's contractual sick leave benefit. We conclude that we must accord the department's interpretation and application of…