Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations

This is a sex discrimination case.

The judgment of the trial court set aside an order of the appellant Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations, finding the respondent Wisconsin Telephone Company’s maternity leave policies to violate secs. 111.32 (5) (g) 1 and 111.325, Stats., prohibiting sex discrimination. The court never reached the merits, but instead ruled that the proceedings before the department contained three fatal procedural errors: (1) The telephone company received inadequate notice of the issues; (2) only one of three commissioners of the department was present during oral…