Hello everyone,
  I received this note from an LC friend who is not on lactnet, but  
would like to share in your wisdom on this problem. We have her and  
mom's permission to post.

Please send your responses and wisdom to Marry Tagge ([log in to unmask] 
) as well as to the list, since I'm sure others will be interested as  
well.

Thanks,

Naomi



Today I received a distress call from a mom required by her job to  
travel to New York for 2 weeks, and she was told if she didn’t go she  
would be fired.  She had arranged to have a family member come to care  
for the baby and stay in her room, and was told by her employer she  
would have to pay for her own room.  I suggested she try to find out  
what the corporate policy is on someone other than the employee in the  
hotel room, and what the corporate policy is on family leave, such as  
for medical needs.  Her boss took time off to care for an ill child,  
yet this mom is penalized for attempting to take time to pump for her  
child on her breaks.  (The child is 10 months old, which is still a  
very fragile age to be separated from mom for 2 weeks).  The mom has  
already been written up and put on probation for a prior business trip  
where she took a childcare provider with her, mom attended every  
session, performed at very high levels, and the situation was brought  
up somehow after the fact.

I need your help!  What can you offer for this mom, particularly  
regarding laws in New York?  She lives here in CO, but her company is  
based out of NY, and she will be in NY.  Her trip is scheduled for  
late July.  She requested contact persons/information about her legal  
rights, and hope you can help her.  I referred her to the USBC  
website, the WIC breastfeeding Coordinator here in Denver at the state  
health dept., the chair of our state brf coalition, two persons  
working on the milkbank startup in New England, and a member of HMBANA  
who has been a rep to the USBC for many years.



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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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617-964-6676
www.milkbankne.org
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