Issues & Advocacy
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POLITICAL ACTION
At its core, 倡导活动旨在帮助人们在对他们来说很重要的问题上发出自己的声音. 威斯康辛餐厅协会提倡食物, 饮料和酒店业以及这个伟大行业的一部分. We work at the State Capitol on behalf of all restaurants in Wisconsin to advance laws and regulations for the industry, 确保食品安全保护，推动立法改善运作. WRA的目标是创造一个更好的环境，让餐厅专注于他们最擅长的事情，并为员工和客人提供一个吸引人的地方. WRA has your back. |
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Current Issues
You can help make sure that the restaurant industry is heard on key issues by contacting government leaders. WRA is currently lobbying on these issues. In addition to WRA’s lobbying efforts, 一个选民的电子邮件或电话对立法者来说是完全不同的.
当选官员需要听取你关于劳动力挑战的意见
WRA和国家餐馆协会正在许多方面努力，在州和联邦一级倡导解决工人短缺问题.
我们正在努力增加工人和学生签证的数量, 允许其他国家的年轻人来这里旅游, earn money and learn our culture. We are advocating for immigration reform to improve our vetting system to allow people who wish to work in the US the ability to apply, 接受审查，并在美国公民不想要的工作中找到有收入的工作.
我们正在敦促威斯康辛州的立法机构废除紧急规则，该规则放弃了那些领取失业保险的人的求职机会，以及自动的“无工作”条款，该条款允许雇员拒绝工作，继续领取失业保险.
WRA已加入许多其他主要商业团体，敦促州长终止威斯康星州参与联邦失业救济金的增加. Other factors, 比如缺乏儿童保育设施和虚拟学习, are keeping employees at home. Longer term solutions to help get part time workers back into the workforce are also being explored, but will take more time.
In the meantime, 我们鼓励你联系你选出的官员，告诉他们你的故事——让他们知道你的工人的情况，你需要他们与WRA和其他商业团体合作，帮助人们重返工作岗位.
我们正在努力增加工人和学生签证的数量, 允许其他国家的年轻人来这里旅游, earn money and learn our culture. We are advocating for immigration reform to improve our vetting system to allow people who wish to work in the US the ability to apply, 接受审查，并在美国公民不想要的工作中找到有收入的工作.
我们正在敦促威斯康辛州的立法机构废除紧急规则，该规则放弃了那些领取失业保险的人的求职机会，以及自动的“无工作”条款，该条款允许雇员拒绝工作，继续领取失业保险.
WRA已加入许多其他主要商业团体，敦促州长终止威斯康星州参与联邦失业救济金的增加. Other factors, 比如缺乏儿童保育设施和虚拟学习, are keeping employees at home. Longer term solutions to help get part time workers back into the workforce are also being explored, but will take more time.
In the meantime, 我们鼓励你联系你选出的官员，告诉他们你的故事——让他们知道你的工人的情况，你需要他们与WRA和其他商业团体合作，帮助人们重返工作岗位.
Immigration ReformSupporting Workers
WRA is working to deliver these messages and help make comprehensive immigration reform possible. WRA认识到移民对食品的重要性, 饮料和服务行业正在游说建立一个更好的体系.
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Personal Property TaxReduce & Repeal PPT
WRA has lobbied for reduction or elimination of personal property tax (PPT) for restaurants for many years. In 2018, WRA was part of the successful efforts to reduce PPT by $75 million in the state budget. 然而，PPT仍然是不公平和令人困惑的——wra继续推动全面废除该税.
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Level the Playing FieldEmployment Law
WRA认为，与就业有关的法律应该在州一级制定, not at the local level. 当不同的城市制定他们自己的就业要求时, 它为这些城市的企业创造了一个不公平的竞争环境. A potential disadvantage is then realized, compared to those operating in a neighboring community. 在多个自治市经营的餐饮企业也可能面临难以遵守因自治市不同而不同的法律的困难. |
View WRA's activity and support for issues and bills during the legislative session on the Lobbying Interests tab of the Government Accountability Board website.
Industry Successes
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WRA's vigilance on key issues in the past few years has already saved your business plenty of money. 想象一下，如果这些法律中的任何一条发生改变，你的企业和员工将付出多大的代价:
Combined with the participation and support of our members, WRA has accomplished the following: |
2021PPP Expense Deductibility – Act 1
WRA成功推动威斯康星州税法反映联邦政府，并允许COVID - 19工资保护计划贷款收益支付的费用也可在州所得税申报单上扣除. Unemployment Insurance Benefit Charging – Act 4 WRA确保失业保险福利收费的减免延长到3月13日, 雇主将自动获得救济, without having to fill out onerous paperwork. Business COVID Liability Protection – Act 4 WRA努力确保威斯康星州的企业不会被声称在其业务中感染COVID-19的客户和员工起诉 Cocktails-to-Go – Act 21 Soon after the Pandemic began, WRA advocated the legislature and the Governor to allow restaurants and bars to sell Cocktails-to-Go. 该法案于2021年初通过并签署, 使密封的随身鸡尾酒在威斯康星州永久合法 Electronic Tip Declaration – Act 26 辩护律师利用威斯康辛州一项过时的就业规则，招募有经验的餐馆雇员对他们的雇主提起诉讼, 如果员工通过电子销售点系统报告小费. Restaurants were spending tens of thousands of dollars defending what is considered a legal practice by state and federal agencies. WRA推动通过了一项法律，允许使用POS系统记录员工小费, saving employers costly legal fees Restaurant employee vaccine priority WRA worked hard to get restaurant employees added to the COVID 19 vaccine priority list that included other essential food workers. 卫生服务部于2021年3月15日增加了餐厅员工 |
2019-20202019-2020年全国人大会议因新冠肺炎疫情提前结束, 当时威斯康星州议会提前休会，直到2021年1月才回来. WRA was successful in stopping an effort to repeal the September 1 Uniform K-12 School Start date. WRA also secured an increase in funding for the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s marketing budget. Prior to the Pandemic, WRA was close to securing a temporary change in bar closing time during the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. 这些努力随着《买球推荐软件》的取消而结束. WRA was successful in securing Unemployment Benefit charging relief was included in the Act 185, a bill addressing the COVID Pandemic and the legislature’s last piece of legislation of the session. 这确保了雇主的失业保险基金不会因为COVID - 19大流行而被迫解雇或让员工休假而枯竭.
WRA还与美国税务局和威斯康辛经济发展公司合作，向受到大流行不利影响的餐馆提供We 're All In赠款. 超过6.7亿美元分配给了威斯康星州的餐厅和酒店业. |
2018Passed Employment Law Standardization Act
WRA推动通过了这项法律，阻止市政当局制定地方就业法，如“公平调度”或强制规定具体的就业福利——这确保了就业法是在州一级制定的，允许企业制定最适合其员工的调度和福利方案. 
2017Repeal of Personal Property Tax
WRA成功地部分废除了针对餐馆设备征收的繁重个人财产税，这将意味着对一些餐馆企业减税. |
2001 – 2016
2016: 全国各大城市掀起了一股禁止使用塑料袋的浪潮, polystyrene, 餐馆使用的涂布纸和其他特定类型的容器. WRA and other business-sector groups banded together and pass a law preventing local governments from banning or taxing containers, bags, bottles or cans used by retail businesses.
2015: A secret budget provision would have eliminated the liquor licenses of hundreds of restaurant operators around the state, 让他们中的许多人在没有补偿的情况下破产. WRA uncovered this secret maneuver and convinced Governor Walker to veto the provision from the budget bill.
2013: 纽约市禁止超过16盎司的软饮料. 麦迪逊市也在讨论类似的立法. WRA通过了一项州法律，阻止地方政府规范服务的大小, nutritional values, 餐馆可能提供的营养标签或食物类型.
2011: WRA helps to pass a state ban on local regulation of sick leave benefits and Family and Medical Leave, killing the Milwaukee sick leave mandate.
2010: City of Superior debates a plan to ban toys and other prizes in kids’ meals offered by restaurants. WRA的工作人员和成员向安理会成员提供事实，挫败了这项建议.
2009: 该法案由参议院多数党领袖提出，旨在创建自动, 每年最低工资上调，并允许当地制定最低工资条例. WRA召集了成员，并将该法案从州预算中删除, 然后在国会劳动委员会否决了该法案.
2008: Milwaukee voters approve a ballot initiative requiring a paid sick leave benefit for all employees. WRA joins a business-sector lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee and delays implementation of the sick leave ordinance until 2011.
2006: WRA支持一项州法律，禁止针对餐馆的肥胖相关诉讼.
2005 & 2006: 一项行政命令提高了威斯康辛州的最低工资, 但WRA阻止了服务器工资的相应增长. 事实上，自从1981年以来，服务员的工资就没有明显的增长. WRA知道，更需要提高工资的是底层民众. 在房子前面强迫加薪只会适得其反.
2005: WRA gets a new state law passed that nullifies Madison’s minimum wage and prevents all local governments from setting their own minimum wages.
2001: 威斯康辛州声称，所有未归还的礼品券和礼品卡都是“无人认领的财产”，并要求零售企业将未使用的礼品券收入交给州财务主管. WRA推动立法，澄清未使用的礼品卡不是“无人认领的财产”.”
2016: 全国各大城市掀起了一股禁止使用塑料袋的浪潮, polystyrene, 餐馆使用的涂布纸和其他特定类型的容器. WRA and other business-sector groups banded together and pass a law preventing local governments from banning or taxing containers, bags, bottles or cans used by retail businesses.
2015: A secret budget provision would have eliminated the liquor licenses of hundreds of restaurant operators around the state, 让他们中的许多人在没有补偿的情况下破产. WRA uncovered this secret maneuver and convinced Governor Walker to veto the provision from the budget bill.
2013: 纽约市禁止超过16盎司的软饮料. 麦迪逊市也在讨论类似的立法. WRA通过了一项州法律，阻止地方政府规范服务的大小, nutritional values, 餐馆可能提供的营养标签或食物类型.
2011: WRA helps to pass a state ban on local regulation of sick leave benefits and Family and Medical Leave, killing the Milwaukee sick leave mandate.
2010: City of Superior debates a plan to ban toys and other prizes in kids’ meals offered by restaurants. WRA的工作人员和成员向安理会成员提供事实，挫败了这项建议.
2009: 该法案由参议院多数党领袖提出，旨在创建自动, 每年最低工资上调，并允许当地制定最低工资条例. WRA召集了成员，并将该法案从州预算中删除, 然后在国会劳动委员会否决了该法案.
2008: Milwaukee voters approve a ballot initiative requiring a paid sick leave benefit for all employees. WRA joins a business-sector lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee and delays implementation of the sick leave ordinance until 2011.
2006: WRA支持一项州法律，禁止针对餐馆的肥胖相关诉讼.
2005 & 2006: 一项行政命令提高了威斯康辛州的最低工资, 但WRA阻止了服务器工资的相应增长. 事实上，自从1981年以来，服务员的工资就没有明显的增长. WRA知道，更需要提高工资的是底层民众. 在房子前面强迫加薪只会适得其反.
2005: WRA gets a new state law passed that nullifies Madison’s minimum wage and prevents all local governments from setting their own minimum wages.
2001: 威斯康辛州声称，所有未归还的礼品券和礼品卡都是“无人认领的财产”，并要求零售企业将未使用的礼品券收入交给州财务主管. WRA推动立法，澄清未使用的礼品卡不是“无人认领的财产”.”
Get Involved: Campaign Support
WRA-Political Action CommitteeWRA’s Political Action Committee (WRA-PAC) helps elect state and local candidates that aim to benefit our industry. WRA-PAC结合个人捐款，将资金分配给候选人，以取得更大的效果(企业捐款被分配给威斯康星州皇家空军).
贡献必须是个人贡献，而不是来自企业. |
Conduit FundThe WRA Conduit program helps you distribute your personal funds to any candidate for local or state office, at any time. As an individual, you have full control over your political contributions -or- contributions may also be pooled for larger impact.
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威斯康辛州餐馆协会倡导基金(RAF)教育成员和公众关于影响威斯康辛州餐馆的立法问题. Through RAF, 议员们会收到国会报告通讯，并了解重要立法问题的最新情况. 加入我们热情的餐饮行业倡导者的社区.
The RAF helps to:
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Candidate Endorsements当威斯康辛州议会开会时，WRA游说制定公共政策. But when campaign season comes around, WRA works to shape the legislature by supporting candidates we can expect to support our key issues during their term. WRA的候选人背书程序让所有候选人都有机会告诉我们，他们在影响我们行业和整个州经济的关键问题上的立场. WRA meets with, interviews and educates candidates on issues that may be coming up in the Capitol in the near future. Help pick candidates worthy of WRA’s support or share information with WRA about candidates that support our industry and small business.
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FAQs
WRA works to shape the legislature by supporting candidates we can expect to support key issues that impact the restaurant industry and the state’s economy as a whole. 所有候选人都有机会向WRA告知他们在关键问题上的立场，WRA将亲自采访和通过问卷调查，并就影响威斯康辛州餐饮业和小企业的潜在问题教育候选人.
有许多方法可以帮助WRA的宣传工作. Whether it’s testifying at hearings, talking with legislators at Restaurant Advocacy Day at the capitol or contacting legislators on important issues, 餐馆经营者的草根参与是游说成功的绝对必要条件. On a federal level, 威斯康辛州的餐饮业专业人士有机会参加每年在华盛顿特区举行的国家餐饮业协会公共事务会议，就影响餐饮业和小企业的重要联邦问题进行游说. 对WRA政治行动委员会和餐馆倡导基金的捐款对于支持WRA代表餐饮业的游说努力也至关重要.
“WRA在州议会所做的宣传对于降低餐馆必须处理的所有不同类型的成本非常重要.”
