Hi Beth,
According to Jake Marcus' excellent new website www.breastfeedinglaw.com, there is no apparent enforcement provision to the law about workplace pumping in Illinois. Without the enforcement provision there is not a way to punish those who break the law. She does have an article on her site called "Pumping 9 to 5" that has some advice about approaching employers and worth reading.
As you approach the employer try to focus completely on the advantages to the business if this mom is successful in breastfeeding.
Breast wishes,
Nancy Mallin, MA, IBCLC
Kensington, Maryland
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Subject: Re: enforcing pumping in the workplace laws
Beth -
Not sure if this can help: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs73.htm.
Linda L Pohl, IBCLC, RLC
Linda "at" PohlHome "dot" com
Phoenix, AZ (USA), Washington DC (USA), Chennai (India), Athens (Greece),
Kabul (Afghanistan), KualaLumpur (Malaysia)
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Subject: enforcing pumping in the workplace laws
I have been contacted by a local mom who is meeting with resistance from her employer in providing her with a non-bathroom place to pump milk for her little one. We are in Illinois and have a public act in this State protecting a mom's right to pump in the workplace. As I am trying to work on this for her, it looks like there is no governing agency who enforces this public act.
I have contacted our local state representative and will contact her employer. The Illinois Department of Labor was not at all helpful.
Does anyone have experience with this type of issue? Are public acts different than laws in their enforceability? We always seem to refer to State Breastfeeding "Laws" but are they perhaps not laws at all, and as such do not have to be followed?
Thanks for any ideas you might have.
On another note...I also have heard from CLC's who have gone through the Healthy Children Project training that when they complete the week they are as well trained as an IBCLC. I had hoped that was just a bad rumor or the attendees had "heard wrong". Perhaps not.
Thanks so much...
Beth Seidel, IBCLC
Pekin Hospital, Pekin, IL
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