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Committee to consider continuing waivers for UI work-search requirements
Lawmakers this week will consider extending a series of pandemic-related rules intended to freeze employers' unemployment-insurance payments, waive job-search requirements for people receiving unemployment benefits and curtail the need for in-person fire and electrical inspections.
DSPS rule seeks to ease workload for high school electricians-in-training
State officials are taking steps to advance a policy tmeant to make it easier for high school students to train to become an electrician.
DSPS takes down public calendar used to track plan review backlog
Even as the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services remains under pressure to speed its processing of commercial-building plans, it has removed from its website a public calendar showing the extent of its review backlog.
OPINION: Big government delaying building projects, economic growth
As contractors know, in Wisconsin most commercial building plans must be reviewed by the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Standards, or to a delegated local unit of government.
DSPS restarts in-person trades exams put on-hold by COVID-19
The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services is resuming in-person trades exams after putting them off this spring in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
DSPS withdraws fire-protection rule amid skepticism from lawmakers
The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have prevented contractors from inspecting fire and smoke dampeners unless they were first certified in response to misgivings that a legislative panel would most likely have struck the proposal down.
Panel vote means more scrutiny for rule calling for fire-inspection credentials
A proposed rule requiring contractors to earn a certification before inspecting fire and smoke dampeners is headed for further scrutiny following a committee's vote on Friday.
COVID-19 and construction: How a hands-on industry is handling an outbreak
Even as COVID-19 has led to school closings, event cancellations and other social-distancing measures, Wisconsin's construction industry has largely made no plans to stop work – at least fornow.
NO CONSENSUS: Industry disagrees on best remedy for plan-review delays
A bill meant to reduce a backlog of commercial-plan reviews drew a mixed response from construction officials at a public hearing in the state Capitol on Wednesday.
Bill advancing to break logjam of plan reviews
Lawmakers are moving quickly to advance a bill meant to ease a backlog of requests for reviews commercial-construction plans before this year's short legislative session runs out.
Top DSPS official proposes more changes to speed up plan reviews
Responding to recent complaints about delays in plan reviews, a top state official is calling for changes to standards determining when project plans have to receive official approval.
Amid plan-review delays, state struggles to keep staff
As the Department of Safety and Professional Services continues to struggle to work its way through a persistent backlog of request for commercial-plan reviews, new attention has been called to staffing at the regulatory agency.
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