The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers to allow employees to express milk, or as referred to by most people as pumping milk. Â The PPACA does not provide a private cause of action that would allow an employee to file a lawsuit. Â However, an employee who suffers retaliation as a result of complaining about the lack of breast milk pumping facilities or about the employers’ refusal to provide break time to pump milk, you may have a cause of action pursuant to the anti-retaliation provisions of the FLSA.
If your employer has retaliated against you as a result of you complaining about the lack of facilities to pump milk or refusal to allow break time to pump milk, please contact us to discuss.