A jury must decide if GAT Airline Ground Support Inc. violated labor and employment discrimination law in how it handled the breast-pumping needs of an employee following childbirth, a Pittsburgh federal judge ruled.
The decision is the latest to address workplace lactation rights, including when workers are entitled to pregnancy accommodations under federal and state laws, when an employer’s reaction to work adjustments required to express milk constitute harassment, and when job actions taken after friction arises among an employee and a company amounts to retaliation.
Madison Weaver deserves a trial on all three of those issues, the US District ...