A breastmilk-pumping mom says she was forced to pump her breastmilk at work under impossible conditions. Now she's suing her firm under a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that protects women who need to pump while working.
Excerpt from What to Expect:
Her suit alleges she was directed to pump in rooms that were unsanitary or insufficiently private, surrounded by dead bugs, filthy unfinished floors, and doors without locks. Bobbi says that coworkers harassed her for pumping. They brought her a bucket and jokingly compared her to a cow being milked. She goes on to say that at one point, she was told to use the first aid room for pumping. But male coworkers pounded on the door and yelled, in an effort to harass her. Bobbi says that when she complained, the company switched her day-shift schedule. Her next gig, time-wise: one with a rotating schedule that "frequently required her to work an overnight shift," according to a news release on the ACLU website. That gig, however, her lawyers claim, "disrupted her ability to breastfeed or produce enough milk to feed her baby."
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