The International Foodservice Distributors Association spent $172,442 in the first quarter to lobby an increase in the minimum wage, agriculture and energy legislation, and other issues.
The trade group, whose members include Sysco Corp., Performance Food Group Co. and U.S. Food Service Inc., also lobbied on food safety legislation and country-of-origin labeling requirements, immigration reform, and funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Agriculture.
Other bills the group lobbied on would:
_ Overturn a Supreme Court ruling that locked in a statute of limitations for wage discrimination suits.
_ Increase the tools available to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration by offering increased protections to whistleblowers and increasing agency's ability to sanction noncompliant businesses.
_ Eliminate the right of employers to demand a secret-ballot election before a union could be certified and allow union organizers to bypass elections when a majority of employees sign "check cards" certifying a union.
_ Establish new definitions for "disabled" under the Americans with Disabilities Act, changing the description from a physical or mental impairment that "substantially limits" one or more major life activity to one that "materially restricts" such an activity.
_ Make it easier for more employees to join unions by amending the 1935 National Labor Relations Act to modify the definition of "supervisor."
Besides Congress, the IFDA lobbied the Labor and Agriculture departments, the Food & Drug Administration and other federal agencies, according to a disclosure form filed April 18 with the House clerk's office.
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