Remedies for enforcement of the new federal Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP Act), which requires most employers to provide both reasonable break time for employees ...

Since 2010, employers covered by the FLSA have been required to provide certain lactation accommodations for nursing mothers so they can express milk at work. The accommodations are required for up to ...

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 ...

A recent federal law—the PUMP Act—expands the rights of employees for lactation breaks. Although there were prior protections for some employees under federal law, the PUMP Act amends the Fair Labor ...

Congress has sent a show of support for millions of new working mothers, passing a key piece of legislation that requires employers to support breastfeeding parents. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate ...

The U.S. Postal Service allegedly forced nursing employees to express their breast milk in unsanitary, uncomfortable and often public places, without giving them reasonable time to do so, three ...

A settlement stemming from a lawsuit filed by a 26-year-old Grand Junction woman may help other women from having to choose between going to work and pumping breast milk for their nursing children.

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A barista at a South Jersey Starbucks has won a round in a fight alleging that the company violated her civil rights as a new mother. The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights said it's found "a ...