A police officer wants to sue $ 5 million from New York for not expressing milk at work
'09.10.2018'
Source: New York Post
A New York City police department officer sued the city and its mayor, Bill de Blasio, because nursing police mothers who need breast milk pumping are treated as if they are idlers and take too many interruptions.
In an official notice, Simon Teagle says that her bosses in the 113th district of Queens created such a huge problem from her requests for pumping that the woman developed mastitis, a painful condition that occurs when a breastfeeding mother's breasts are not emptied regularly. New York Post.
Teagle, 37, claims the city did not provide her and other breastfeeding mothers with a private, clean place to express at work. The woman considers this a violation of the law. Attached to the documents is a photograph of a women's locker room in the county's precinct - dirty mattresses, heaps of rubbish, and one chair.
The woman says that she was persecuted for “claiming a legitimate right” to express herself and demanded to “repay” for this necessity. Tegl intends to sue 5 millions of dollars in a process that will be held in a federal court in Brooklyn, said her lawyer Eric Sanders.
“Legislators have decided that there is good public policy to protect the legal rights of breastfeeding mothers in the workplace, and we intend to prosecute parties who completely ignore them,” Sanders said.
The problems began shortly after Teagle returned from maternity leave in January.
“They look at me and roll their eyes. Or they squint at me like this: “Oh, here we go again ...”, ”she said.
The reaction was so bad that she didn’t even dare to complain about the harsh conditions in which she was forced to pump her breasts - including the women's shower, a parked car and a filthy, moldy locker room.
“It was just a terrible place to express milk. Just awful.
The medical problems began in August, when a supervisor demanded that she start recording her pumping breaks so that anyone could see them.
“After a while, I stopped asking for a break,” she said. - Only when my breasts were full and I really needed to express. I didn't want to see these faces and listen to nasty things. "
“I know there are other women with the same problems,” she said of the New York City Police Department. "Most of them just stopped breastfeeding because they didn't want to deal with it all."
