Home > Administrative Services > DWD History - Signing the 1932 Unemployment Compensation Law
   

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development History
50th Anniversary of the first Worker's Compensation Law

1961: On the 50th anniversary of the passage of the first worker's compensation law, Senator Theodore W. Brazeau addresses the State Senate.  In 1909, Senator Brazeau introduced a proposal to provide compensation insurance which was the first attempt at workers compensation legislation.
  

Updated September 27, 2010
Division of Administrative Services
Content Contact: Jerry French