According to the policy, a manager would have to permit an employee to use
her break time to express and store breast milk "unless such an
accommodation would cause an inability to provide effective services, risk
public safety, or be unduly burdensome if staffing levels would be adversely
impacted."

What I do not understand is why permission is necessary when it is paid
break time.  If that is true, it is your break to do whatever you want to do
with it, like lunch break.  I use my breaks for I what I choose to use them
for and that is expression of my breastmilk.  I also store it in our
refridgerator, again not asking for permission.  Again I do not comprehend
the need to ask for permission to store it.  I keep my own beverage in
there, why not my baby's.

The policy would not permit employees to breast-feed during their paid
breaks.

I sound redundant but again why cant they use their paid breaks to do
whatever it is they want to do??  That is what a paid break is.

"Earlier this year, the state Legislature considered a bill, HB 2284,
declaring a mother may breast-feed "in any place she has a right to be." The
bill was remanded back to the state Committee on Health and Human Services
largely in part because of a heavily debated amendment stating a mother
would be entitled such a right if she would breast-feed discreetly, said
Sen. Kay O'Connor, R-Olathe."

As long as we continue to be discreet about it, society will never view is
as normal.  In other words, they are saying she can do it anywhere she wants
to, as long as no one sees her.  Are we bf advocates the only ones who see
what is wrong with that?

Karen  McGratty
LLLL New York NY
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