I have an ongoing factory problem here in SW Virginia. A local factory allows workers to have a smoke break but forced a breast-pumping mom into the (filthy) ladies room to pump for 5 minutes twice a day. After a week or so they stopped her doing it at all. At her request I visited the factory and spoke to the man in charge. I tried to tell him how much happier his worker would be and went on at some length about all the advantages to the baby and mother. I finished up by telling him that she would need less time off to take the baby to the dr for ear infections etc. He listened to me scowling the whole time and then retorted that if she took any time at all to take the child to the doc for any illnesses that she would be fired!
  He didn't give a @#!* how she fed her kid and there were plenty more to take her place if she didn't want her *$#@! job.
  I really hope that you have better luck than I did!
  Julie Taylor RN IBCLC


I know the theory, of course, but what I'd like to know more about is what
practical ways there are to manage letting someone take a break if it
affects the flow of work--an assembly line, for instance, or some kind of
team where every member has a quota to meet. There's also the question of
being fair if part of a worker's pay is by the piece, because workers who
are expressing milk probably won't turn out as many pieces. 



 
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