A group of approximately 20 women protested at the Hampton Inn of Bordentown, New Jersey early Sunday morning to support breastfeeding mom Ariana Gossard.
...Moms Pump Here’s advertising campaign for National Breastfeeding Month on Facebook this week has been rejected by Facebook’s Ads Team because, according to a Facebook representative (only known as “Kyle”), the image used in the ads does not follow their policy for advertising.
...The trend keeps going! Following announcements earlier this month from Netflix and Microsoft, California-based tech firm Adobe has now also expanded its employee maternity leave for new moms. The new version of their paid leave consists of ten weeks of medical leave and 16 weeks of parental leave, for a total of 26 weeks for the new mom to spend with her growing family.
...The trend continues! Yesterday, Moms Pump Here reported about Netflix’s new parental leave policy and today we are happy to report that Microsoft Corporation has also updated their parental leave policy.
...Streaming service Netflix is setting a new standard for parental leave this week by announcing it will now provide its employees with up to one year of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child. This new allowance complements the already generous fringe benefits offered by Netflix, such as free meals, lavish salaries, generous stock options and unlimited vacation each year.
...Nursing mothers traveling, working, or residing in Illinois got a big boost from Governor Bruce Rauner this week when he endorsed the law which requires all large airports (listed in our airport nursing rooms locator) to create or add breastfeeding rooms by 2017.
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1:(r)An employer shall provide—
(A) a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child’s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk; and
(B) a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.
2: An employer shall not be required to compensate an employee receiving reasonable break time under paragraph (1) for any work time spent for such purpose.
3: An employer that employs less than 50 employees shall not be subject to the requirements of this subsection, if such requirements would impose an undue hardship by causing the employer significant difficulty or expense when considered in relation to the size, financial resources, nature, or structure of the employer’s business.