In determining whether the logging contractor or forest products manufacturer exercises direction or control over the work of a piece cutter or skidding operator and whether the piece cutter or skidding operator is engaged in an independently established business, the department may not use as evidence any requirements of state or federal law governing the logging industry. The department believes it is unreasonable to consider mandates of law as evidence because they have not been imposed on the relationship between the parties of their own volition.
Wis. Admin. Code Department of Workforce Development DWD 107.02