Recently while out to dinner with some mom friends, we began swapping stories of all the strange places we’d pumped breast milk while at work. A supply closet. A public bathroom stall. An empty conference room with no lock on the door. Now far beyond the baby stage, we laughed at these “war stories,” but the truth is more sobering: Until very recently, millions of American women had no guaranteed right to pump milk to feed their babies while at work.
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The Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act, which passed Congress with bipartisan support, changes that. This new law extends protections to an additional 9 million nursing parents and closes “unintentional” loopholes in a 2010 law, the Break Time for Nursing Mothers Act. Here’s what you need to know about how the PUMP Act might affect you.
Previously protections covered only hourly workers who qualified for overtime. The PUMP Act brings under its umbrella an additional nine million salaried workers, such as teachers and nurses, the majority of whom are women, as well as hourly workers who didn’t previously qualify because they don’t receive overtime pay, like farm workers. Unfortunately, contract workers are not included in the PUMP Act, nor are airline pilots or flight attendants. This is due to lobbying by the airline industry, which argued pumping at work would be...
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