Wisconsin Code § 111.59

Filing order with clerk of circuit court; period effective; retroactivity
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(1) In this section, “order” means
the findings, decision and order of the arbitrator.
(2) The arbitrator shall hand down his or her order within 30
days after his or her appointment; except that the parties may
agree to extend, or the commission may for good cause extend the
period for not to exceed an additional 30 days. If the arbitrators
do not agree, then the decision of the majority shall constitute the
order in the case. The arbitrator shall furnish to each of the parties and to the public service commission a copy of the order. A
certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of
the circuit court of the county wherein the dispute arose or where
the majority of the employees involved in the dispute resides.
(3) Unless the order is reversed upon a petition for review
filed pursuant to s. 111.60, the order, together with any other
agreements that the parties may themselves have reached, shall
become binding upon, and shall control the relationship between
the parties from the date on which the order is filed with the clerk
of the circuit court, as provided in sub. (2). The order shall continue effective for one year from that date, but the order may be
changed by mutual consent or agreement of the parties. No order
of the arbitrators relating to wages or rates of pay shall be retroactive to a date before the date of the termination of any contract
which may have existed between the parties, or, if there was no
prior contract, to a date before the day on which the demands involved in the dispute were presented to the other party. The question whether or not new contract provisions or amendments to an
existing contract are retroactive to the terminating date of a
present contract, amendments or part thereof, shall be matter for
collective bargaining or decision by the arbitrator.

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