This is stunning. Are we still in the middle ages

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26053114-421,00.html

Forced to work overtime after breastfeeding
Couldn't use morning tea breaks to feed
Refused private room to feed

A WOMAN employed by the New South Wales Police Force was forced to work
overtime for every minute she spent expressing breastmilk for her child.


The police intelligence analyst, who can only be identified as Sarah
for security reasons, was also banned from using morning and afternoon
tea breaks because they were "discretionary" and she was denied the use
of accumulated leave.

Complaint documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph claim Sarah's
repeated requests for hours that suited her childcare needs were
rejected and she had to record the time spent expressing milk at work on
her timesheet.

She was refused a private room and instead was made to use either an
unlockable and "unclean" interview room - where she was interrupted by
police officers - or a toilet cubicle.

Eventually she had no choice but to express milk in her car in the
carpark, but because of her "great embarrassment" she drove home and fed
the baby.

When she returned she was made to work for the time she had been gone.


The Public Service Association claimed yesterday the woman was one of
thousands of new mothers in the public service who were being denied
proper facilities for breastfeeding in violation of the Government's own
policy.

The Association will launch action in the industrial court today
demanding that the Government finally uphold the policy.

Read more at The Daily Telegraph

Gwen Moody
CNC Postnatal Care
Westmead Hospital
PO Box 533 Wentworthville 2145
Phone: 02 9845 6964, 0422212774
Fax: 02 9845 8340
Page: 02 9845 5555 - 01135
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