Links and Resources Regarding Breastfeeding Legislation, 'Discrimination' and Suggestions for How (and why) Employers Can Support Breastfeeding Employees and Customers
From the National Business Group on Health
Breastfeeding Support in the Workplace, Best Practices to Promote Health and Productivity
Specific information about employer lactation program and costs.
How Employers Can Assist with Breastfeeding in the Workplace
The Health and Cost Benefits of Breastfeeding
Workplace Breastfeeding Support
Includes descriptions of several levels of workplace breastfeeding support.
Checklist for Accommodations in the Workplace
Working & Breastfeeding: "It's Worth It!" is a free packet of information from WithinReach designed for mothers who return to work and their employers. In addition to health benefits of breastfeeding, these handouts contain suggestions for finding supportive daycare, tips for transitioning back to work, support services, and information for employers about why and how employers can support their breastfeeding employees.
Press Statement on Breastfeeding Discrimination in the Workplace by AAP President Donald Cook, MD, FAAP (March 8, 2000).
"Employers' Obligations to Breastfeeding Employees" by Tera Schreiber, JD regarding Washington State law.
Corporate Lactation: Breastfeeding Mothers Return to Work
Website of Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, (D-NY).