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June 25, 2008

California company fined $4,000 for violating workplace pumping law.

J0428556 And speaking of pumping...

A California company has been fined $4,000 for violating the state's law requiring employers to make a reasonable effort to provide a clean, private space for pumping (that is not a toilet stall) and a reasonable amount of break time to do so.

The Sacramento Bee reports:

"In the first citation of its kind, California's Labor Commission on Friday fined a Santa Clara-based company $4,000 for violating a state law that requires employers to reasonably accommodate employees who are breast-feeding.

The commission cited International Security Services Inc., a private security firm, after investigating a complaint by one of its employees.

The woman, who was not named in a press release, said she had to express breast milk in a room monitored by security cameras and didn't get the time she needed."

This reminded me of the discussion I had with Jake Marcus about enforcement provisions in laws protecting breastfeeding mothers in a recent podcast interview.

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Comments

That's great news! I've known several women who gave up BFing because they couldn't pump at work, and it's just sad.

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