In theory, how a mother feeds her baby is up to her. Breast-feeding? Pumped breast milk? Formula? Maybe some of each, but a woman’s decision should not be dictated by her employer, argues the American ...

Imagine being a new mom trying to balance your job and the needs of your 4-month-old baby, only to be told by HR that pumping for your infant in the workplace is “unprofessional.” Sounds like a ...

Working moms in the U.S. are told to exclusively breastfeed for six months, but they’re only given 12 weeks of unpaid leave — if they’re lucky. What happens for the next 12 weeks or more?

When Jasmine Emery wasn’t driving the #400/405 bus, she’d use her short breaks to gingerly attach her breast pump under her uniform and hope passengers wouldn’t barge in or hear its suctioning over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In it, Isharae Jackson, who worked the overnight shift as a picker at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, says she wanted to ...

Nursing parents still have no place to pump at work. Now they’re suing. Illustration showing concept of injustice for nursing parents; lady justice is depicted pumping milk, holding scales in one hand ...

Without workplace protections for pumping, only about half of nursing parents are still breastfeeding their children at the six-month mark, according to 2019 data from the Centers for Disease Control ...

The PUMP Act expanded protections to 9 million workers who had been exempt from the original law and added the provision that allows workers to seek restitution.Some states, including California and ...