Teh One Who Knocks
11-15-2012, 11:36 AM
By Snejana Farberov - The Daily Mail
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A former California school teacher is suing the school where she worked for allegedly failing to let breastfeed her newborn baby when needed and then ousting her.
Sarah Ann Lewis Boyle, of Pacific Grove, has filed a suit October 30 citing the Carmelo School and the Carmel Unified School District alleging discrimination and wrongful termination.
Boyle said before returning to work from her maternity leave in October 2011, she told a manager at the school that she would need about 15 minutes every day between 9am and 11am to pump her breasts.
According to the young mother, Laura Dunn, her manager at the Child Development Center, responded by telling her to start training her breast not to make milk between 7am and 1pm so that she would not need to pump.
The mother said Dunn told her in not so many words to push the feedings further and further apart, according to The Monterey County Herald.
'The effect of this advice was to starve (the baby) slightly,' Boyle said,
When Boyle approached the human resources department with her concerns, she was allegedly told that it was all a misunderstanding, and that arrangements will be made for the mother to feed her baby.
But Boyle claims that the district’s promises came to naught, and she ended up pumping her breasts with little privacy until her baby was weaned off her milk.
Three months after returning to work, Boyle was given a negative job evolution, and a month later, she was force to quit after being informed that her two-year contract will not be renewed.
In May, Boyle filed a complained with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which gave her the green light to sue the school for wrongful termination and retaliation, failure to accommodate and intentinal infliction of emotional distress.
District spokesman Paul Behan said the district does not comment on litigation.
http://i.imgur.com/f7kKe.jpg
A former California school teacher is suing the school where she worked for allegedly failing to let breastfeed her newborn baby when needed and then ousting her.
Sarah Ann Lewis Boyle, of Pacific Grove, has filed a suit October 30 citing the Carmelo School and the Carmel Unified School District alleging discrimination and wrongful termination.
Boyle said before returning to work from her maternity leave in October 2011, she told a manager at the school that she would need about 15 minutes every day between 9am and 11am to pump her breasts.
According to the young mother, Laura Dunn, her manager at the Child Development Center, responded by telling her to start training her breast not to make milk between 7am and 1pm so that she would not need to pump.
The mother said Dunn told her in not so many words to push the feedings further and further apart, according to The Monterey County Herald.
'The effect of this advice was to starve (the baby) slightly,' Boyle said,
When Boyle approached the human resources department with her concerns, she was allegedly told that it was all a misunderstanding, and that arrangements will be made for the mother to feed her baby.
But Boyle claims that the district’s promises came to naught, and she ended up pumping her breasts with little privacy until her baby was weaned off her milk.
Three months after returning to work, Boyle was given a negative job evolution, and a month later, she was force to quit after being informed that her two-year contract will not be renewed.
In May, Boyle filed a complained with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which gave her the green light to sue the school for wrongful termination and retaliation, failure to accommodate and intentinal infliction of emotional distress.
District spokesman Paul Behan said the district does not comment on litigation.