Heather728
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arizona
First of all my company is "supportive" of breastfeeding and provides me with the needed accomodations and breaks to pump as often as needed. However, my co workers are complaining to my manager that I am allegedly abusing this privledge by using pumping as an excuse to get out of doing my work and taking longer than needed to pump and rather than defending me or saying it was none of their business, my manager pulled me aside and brought these complaints to my attention and basically made me feel like crap.
Did my manager even have a right to pull me aside like this? Should she have attempted to verify the claims of misconduct before addressing me? or should she have just told the complaining employees that it is a confidentail HR matter? I feel like she enabled the complaints by entertaining them rather than telling them it was not their business and I know I am not abusing the privledge and I am well within my rights. I plan to discuss this matter wit HR tomorrow to see what can be done, because this isnt the first time this has happened. I used to work in another department with a diferent manager and the exact same thing happened then too. I refuse to compromise when I know I am doing nothing wrong and I refuse to tolerate being harassed and made uncomfortable about this any longer. What can I do and are there laws that protect me when it comes to harassment for breastfeeding?
First of all my company is "supportive" of breastfeeding and provides me with the needed accomodations and breaks to pump as often as needed. However, my co workers are complaining to my manager that I am allegedly abusing this privledge by using pumping as an excuse to get out of doing my work and taking longer than needed to pump and rather than defending me or saying it was none of their business, my manager pulled me aside and brought these complaints to my attention and basically made me feel like crap.
Did my manager even have a right to pull me aside like this? Should she have attempted to verify the claims of misconduct before addressing me? or should she have just told the complaining employees that it is a confidentail HR matter? I feel like she enabled the complaints by entertaining them rather than telling them it was not their business and I know I am not abusing the privledge and I am well within my rights. I plan to discuss this matter wit HR tomorrow to see what can be done, because this isnt the first time this has happened. I used to work in another department with a diferent manager and the exact same thing happened then too. I refuse to compromise when I know I am doing nothing wrong and I refuse to tolerate being harassed and made uncomfortable about this any longer. What can I do and are there laws that protect me when it comes to harassment for breastfeeding?