Employers should furnish lactation rooms with the appropriate equipment and supplies, from comfortable chairs to clean towels and antibacterial wipes.
Although its benefits are undeniable, breastfeeding has sparked everything from disapproving glares to blatant intolerance for decades.
With breastfeeding discrimination lawsuits on the rise—the number of lawsuits skyrocketed 800 percent between 2006 and 2016—employers must accommodate nursing mothers or face a potentially devastating lawsuit.
The birth of a landmark law
To protect the rights of working mothers, Congress green-lit a groundbreaking amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 2010, Break Time for Nursing Mothers. Enacted through the Affordable Care Act, the law requires that employers provide nursing women the opportunity—and accommodations—to express milk at work.
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