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Date: | Fri, 22 Sep 1995 13:47:48 -0400 |
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Dear Friends:
I need to vent. I have a mother of a 3 month old who has called us several
times for advise on her approaching return to work. She has been asking her
employer for a place to pump when she returns. She has been using a big
M----- pump but decided to try the smaller L------because it had battery
capability and she didn't think they would have electricity wherever they let
her pump.
She had planned to return next Monday but was told by her employer that she
had used up all of her leave time. (She was put to bed prematurely, then
suffered with a postpartal infection which kept her out longer.) Her
physician even wrote to the company explaining her condition.
Anyway, the arm on the pump stuck the night before she had to return to
work. She was so concerned that she would not have been able to pump that
she called in to work saying that she couldn't come in. They told her that
she was no longer employed. She had used up all of her leave time. ( They
included her sick days in the leave time.)
She has worked for the same company for 13 years and has only missed 5-6 days
in all that time. She worked on an assembly line. Her husband is already
working 2 jobs to support them.
It was so sad to hear her say that it wasn't a job she was proud of. She
said, "I guess we'll never have a nice house." I quoted her something I saw
the other day (I don't have the author): "One hundred years from now, it
won't matter how much money I made, what kind of car I drove, or what kind
of house I lived in but that I was important in the life of a child."
We are going to see that she gets a decent pump. The pump company was
appauled that this kind of thing is going on. It seems like we're going
backwards.
Does anyone have a clear understanding of the family leave bill that was
passed? Does anyone want to come down here to South Carolina and help us do
some education?
The school district also called me the other day. It seems they had a
student who was trying to "get out of class" to breastfeed her baby. They
didn't want to set a precedent by allowing her unlimited time to breastfeed.
Ginny
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