A former teacher in California is suing school officials over breastfeeding discrimination and wrongful termination allegations. That's right, Sarah Ann Lewis Boyle has sued Carmelo School and the Carmel Unified School District because, after she returned to work from maternity leave, she told a manager at the school where she worked that she would need about 15 minutes a day to pump her breasts. What happened? Well, the manager told her to retrain her breasts to stop making milk (WHAT?!) before Sarah was forced to quit her job a few months later.
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The whole thing sounds like every new mother's nightmare, to be honest. It's certainly MY nightmare. A mother being told that she shouldn't pump her breasts and then basically being fired over it is the most unfair thing I've ever heard. Worse still, Sarah's manager was another woman. How could she even suggest that? I don't get it.
After the breast pumping fiasco, Sarah was given a negative job evaluation and was forced to quit a month later "after being informed that her two-year contract will not be renewed," according to The Daily Mail.
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I'm really glad that Sarah isn't just taking their abuse. Instead, the mom filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and they "gave her the green light to sue the school for wrongful termination and retaliation, failure to accommodate and intentional infliction of emotional stress." I'm definitely hoping she wins this one for women who need to breastfeed or pump at the office.
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