MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who run the Legislature’s finance committee are planning to add language to the state budget that would allow factor and retail employees to work seven straight days without a day of rest. Under current state law, employers who own factories and retail stores must allow their workers at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in every seven consecutive days. The requirement doesn’t apply to janitors, security guards, bakeries, restaurants, hotels and certain dairy and agricultural plants. The finance committee’s GOP members include language in their final budget revisions Thursday that would let an employee voluntarily work seven straight days. The language mirrors a Republican bill that’s sitting in the Assembly labor committee.
