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May 2011 Moms
PSA re: pumping at work
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Re: PSA re: pumping at work
This was my evil principal's response to my need to pump last school year:
The new Healthcare Reform Act and the Ga. Code ? 34-1-6.
Part of the new Healthcare Reform Act that was signed by President Obama
on 3/23/10 has legislation in it referring to nursing mothers. The act
states specifically:
...employees who are nursing are provided with reasonable unpaid break
time in a private area to express breast milk after the birth of a
child. Such break time should not unduly disrupt classroom operations or
other functions of a department or school. Employees will be expected to
work with their supervisors to ensure that their classroom will be
properly supervised at all times and that their nursing breaks do not
unduly impact the completion of their duties and responsibilities.
Since my pumping unduly disrupted the functions of the school I was not allowed to pump at work. Ironically, she got demoted to an elementary school. Hopefully the new principal once hired will allow me to pump at work.
Yes, there is a clause in there that it can't cause hardship to companies that are small (typically the same ones who don't have to participate in FMLA as well).
This law though covers employees who are under FLSA, which is hourly workers and then also workers like teachers and some other professions. As a salaried worker at a large company there is no requirement for them to allow me to pump at work. Of course, they also don't have to give me a lunch hour, which I haven't had in the last 3 years so I guess pumping at work won't be any different... I'll have to pump in meetings or not at all...