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Good news for Rhode Islanders and breastfeeding advocates everywhere! In addition to the existing Rhode Island laws excluding breastfeeding mothers from disorderly conduct laws, and requiring employers to provide a safe, private place to breastfeed or pump, a new law has been enacted (it became effective without the governor’s signature last week). The new law […]
Starting July 1, 2008, a new Indiana law protects breastfeeding in the workplace. The law applies to businesses with 25 or more employees, as well as the state and political subdivisions of the state. Governor Mitch Daniels signed into law the legislation introduced by State Senator Vi Simpson. The enrolled act reads in part:
Chapter 14. […]
Last April, Ruth Ellen Cummings nursed her 2-week-old baby in a Napanee, Ontario, Canada truck stop restaurant until the assistant manager asked her to cover up. Cummings didn’t have anything to cover the baby, and refused to use the napkin the manager offered. In an interview in the Bellevue Intelligencer, Cummings explained:
I was so upset […]
What’s with the airline industry and its poor treatment of breastfeeding mothers and babies? An Australian woman booked a business class ticket to San Francisco on Qantas Airlines. For some reason, the airline’s booking agent advised the woman to put her baby on the ticket of her companion who was traveling in economy class. The […]
The poll results on carrying a copy of the state breastfeeding laws on nursing in public revealed that 11.4% of voters would like to carry a copy of their state’s law but they don’t have a copy. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about how to obtain a copy of a particular […]
The people behind the Applebee’s nurse-ins now bring you FirstRight, a national grassroots organization dedicated to addressing incidents of breastfeeding discrimination, educating businesses and the general public about breastfeeding rights, and facilitating legislative change. The invitation to join FirstRights.org states:
Now is an exciting time for breastfeeding advocacy! The recent outpouring of activism and support for […]
Some women carry with them a copy of their state’s law that protects breastfeeding in public. When breastfeeding mother Brooke Ryan was confronted by a waitress and the manager at a Lexington, Kentucky, Applebee’s, she presented them with a copy of the Kentucky law. After that incident hit the media, Ryan took criticism from some […]
Wall Street Journal columnist Sue Shellenbarger recently tackled the question of whether there have been any changes in employer support for breastfeeding mothers. Shellenbarger wrote:
Employer support has risen; about 26% of employers offer such programs as a space to pump or access to a lactation coach, up from 19% in 2005, says a 2007 survey […]
Sophie Currier won her appeal for extra time to pump during the medical licensing exam. Appeals Court Judge Gary Katzmann ruled:
In order to put the petitioner on equal footing as the male and non-lactating female examinees, she must be provided with sufficient time to pump breast milk and to address the same physiological and other […]
Yesterday New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signed into law the “Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act” which had been unanimously approved by the New York Assembly and Senate. According to the governor’s press release:
The legislation requires employers to provide uncompensated time, and make a reasonable effort to provide private space for women to express milk […]
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Written by Angela White [email] for b5media.
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