Department of Workforce Development

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development History
Signing the 1932 Unemployment Compensation Law

January 28, 1932: 
Governor Philip LaFollette signs the nation's first unemployment compensation law.
Also pictured in back, left to right, are: Henry Oltl, President, Wisconsin Federation of Labor;
Elizabeth Brandeis; Paul Raushenbush; John R. Commons; Henry Huber; 
Lt. Governor Harold Groves; and Assemblyman Robert Nixon.