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http://www.westfield.com/marion/site/contactus/
Joylyn Souter
---- Morgan Gallagher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24250024-949,00.html?referrer=email
>
> A YOUNG mother was followed by police and security officers through a
> shopping mall then questioned after a complaint over her expressing
> breast milk in a parents room.
>
> Sharleen Salmon, who works at at the Westfield Mall in Marion, Adelaide,
> said she felt harassed and embarrassed when a woman and a cleaner
> complained about her using the room during her half-hour lunch break.
>
> The young mum, who recently returned to work to support her family,
> said: "I was in a private area (in the parents room) behind the curtain
> and this cleaner just walked in on me and watched what I was doing," the
> /Guardian Messenger
> <http://guardian-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/express-delivery-furore/>
> /reported.
>
> "She told me the parents room was for parents and breastfeeding only -
> and that I wasn’t allowed to eat lunch in there.’’
>
> Ms Salmon said she was using a standard breast pump to express milk to
> feed her baby daughter Justice, who was being cared for by her father.
>
> Ms Salmon, who expresses milk once a day, said she was followed back to
> work by a security guard and a police officer, who said a formal
> complaint had been made to centre management.
>
> "They told me that a little kid had been running around in the parents
> room and had briefly seen what I was doing and had complained to its
> mum,’’ she said.
>
> "The mum then complained to security and the cleaner came in to inspect
> what I was doing. They told me the complaint was that there was a
> topless woman eating her lunch in the parents room.
>
> "It’s tough enough that I have to do this during my break, but for a
> complaint to be made about me doing it, is really upsetting.’’
>
> Westfield management did not return several calls for comment.
>
> Breastfeeding Association spokeswoman Tracey Kelly said many people were
> ignorant about expressing milk.
>
> "There’s a public ignorance and there’s still a lack of knowledge around
> breastfeeding and how it works,’’ she said.
>
> Ms Kelly, who is also the Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Accreditation
> program manager, said returning to work was an emotional time for
> mothers, regardless of how they fed their baby.
>
> "This mother was very humiliated and something like this could have seen
> the end of her expressing milk or working.
>
> "It’s already very stressful and then to have someone complain about it
> is absolutely traumatising.".
>
> Ms Salmon has made a complaint to the Equal Opportunity Commission and
> is awaiting a response.
>
> - - -
>
> ``A woman who is treated unfairly because she is breastfeeding can
> complain to the Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, and we do receive
> complaints about how women who are breastfeeding are treated,’’ Ms
> Matthews wrote.
>
> http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24250024-949,00.html?referrer=email
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> Morgan Gallagher
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