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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bobbi Bockoras, Breastfeeding Mom, Allegedly Forced By Employer To Pump On Dirty Floor [View all]
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When the ACA went into effect on March 23, 2010, it amended the nations arterial labor law, the FLSA, to set new workplace standards around breastfeeding and lactation. Companies must now offer new mothers reasonable (unpaid) break time to pump milk. They must also arrange for a private, non-bathroom place, shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, in which the milk can be pumped, up until a year after the employee has given birth. Furthermore, employers are forbidden to retaliate against workers who complain about their bosses lack of compliance.
But following weeks of alleged harassment and discrimination, Bobbi Bockoras, a six-year employee at Saint Gobain Verallia, a glass-bottling factory in Alleghany, Pa., found herself seated on a dirty floor, surrounded by dead bugs, pump in hand. When she had first requested a space to express milk for her infant daughter, Lyla, shed been directed to the bathroom. Shed protested, and the plant had upgraded her to the first-aid room, where she was allegedly heckled by male coworkers shouting and pounding on the door. Her next option was a room with glass walls and no lock on the entrance. Then a shower room. Finally, Bockoras writes on the ACLUs blog,
When Bockoras continued to complain, the company issued a heartfelt apology, offered her two weeks paid vacation, and resolved to start abiding by federal labor laws. Oops! No, they didnt: According to Bockoras, they switched the new mother from her day shift to a rotating schedule of nights and early mornings, refused to explain why, ignored a note from her doctor saying she should keep more regular hours, and proceeded to tell her that she would experience harassment regardless of what shift I was on. It didnt help that some jokesters allegedly covered the doorknob to her lactation cell with grease and metal shards. They've never identified the culprits and no steps were taken to train my colleagues to prevent further harassment, Bockoras writes. After 10 weeks in this abyss of nursing humiliation, the new moms ability to produce breast milk began to suffer, and she had to start feeding her daughter formula. That was when she began to pursue legal recourse, reaching out to the ACLU, the Womens Law Project, and the firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, which is now working on the case pro bono.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/bobbi-bockoras-breastfeeding-mom_n_4241285.html#slide=719525
Got it, fetus sacred. Once born the mother and child are dirt. Discriminated against by her company and harassed by her fellow male MORAN coworkers.
Bobbi and her daughter, Lyla
https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/106-degrees-and-dead-bugs-good-enough-breastfeeding-moms
HT to Major Nikon for the pic, post 6 ~