Out of courtesy, a good first step would be to contact the manager or owner
of the restaurant by telephone or in writing or even secure a regional
contact. Individual MCDonald's restaurants are often individually owned
franchises without formal connections to other McDonalds restaurants. The
employee or shift supervisor that told her to leave may not be acting within
the guidelines and policies of that particular restaurant, either, and the
owner/manager might be grateful to be allowed to discuss this before finding
out in a formal manner and/or may not be aware that this is a sensitive
issue.  I think this would be proper in any service dispute, breastfeeding
or otherwise. She could also check out your state laws regarding filing a
complaint with your Human Rights Commission (if you have one).
Lorri Centineo
Who actually had one of MY new employees do this many, many years ago. Egad!
I could have just died!!! Hey, so I didn't have a written breastfeeding
policy ;o) Duh? Whodathunkit?

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Jay Gordon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, July 06, 2000 6:49 PM
Subject:        Re: LACTNET Digest - 6 Jul 2000 - Special issue (#2000-812)

A mom called me because she was asked to leave MCDonald's (!!!!) because she
was breastfeeding.  She lives in Northern California.
She would like to talk to an attorney.  Any ideas?

Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP

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