Before she was even a mom herself, Abbey Donnell had heard the horror stories about breastfeeding at work. It inspired her to leave her marketing career and launch Work & Mother, which she hoped would provide a solution.
According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers are legally required to provide lactation rooms for nursing employees. The quality of those rooms, however, isn’t so closely regulated. Under the FLSA, the provided spaces must be private, free from intrusion, shielded from view and close to the employee’s work area — which still leaves employers with a lot of room to cut corners.
