12.2 Migrant Worker Definition

A "migrant worker” is a person who:

Temporarily leaves their principal place of residence (outside of Wisconsin) and
Comes to Wisconsin for not more than ten months per year in order to accept seasonal employment in the planting, cultivating, raising, harvesting, handling, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing, grading or storing of any agricultural or horticultural commodity in its unmanufactured state.

"Migrant worker” does not include the following:

A person who is employed only by a state resident if the resident or the resident’s spouse is related to the person as the child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or the spouse of any such relative.
A student who is enrolled in or, during the past six months has been enrolled, in any school, college or university unless the student is a member of a family or household which contains a migrant worker.

This page last updated in Release Number: 07-01
Release Date: 10/29/07
Effective Date: 02/01/08

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