Does your employer have a "lactation room" setup yet?

[FelixDeCat]

According to a new sneaky provision in the healthcare law, employers with more than $500,000 in interstate commerce, must give women up to 1 year after childbirth a room other than a bathroom, which is resistant to intrusion and provides resonable privacy, so they may operate lactation machines while at work. Employers must also provide women time to occupy those rooms, other than normal break or lunch times, to perform the process.

I would hate to be an small employer right about now with all the new costs and regulations, trying to find broom closet while they figure out what to do next.

Where I used to work at, everything was fine in the womens bathroom. I dont know why they had to heap yet another cost to employ people. :hmm:

 

[Drako]

We've got a prayer room - no lactation room though.

 

[OCGuy]

Yes, because pumping at home is so unreasonable.

Oblama keeps the suprises coming!

 

[Slew Foot]

Cant to see what other assinine regulations this 3000 page turd of a bill contains.

 

[GrumpyMan]

My cubicle is ready just in case.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Yes, because pumping at home is so unreasonable.

Oblama keeps the suprises coming!

You heartless brute! Yes, America survived for two centuries without them. But dont you realize this cuts into a womens "me" time?

 

[Oceandevi]

boob milk is teh rocksors though.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Cant to see what other assinine regulations this 3000 page turd of a bill contains.

I stumbled accross this new law while researching VA benefits (it showed up on google on a labor lawyers website). It appears the lawyers are gearing up to cash in, just like they did when the Americans with Disabilities Act first passed.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

We have had one in our building, and the building was put up 30+ years ago by our company. Since the building is older then I am, I am not sure about how long we have had a lactation room. I do know that it's been there for almost 5 years minimum though.

We also are one of the best places to work for working mothers, so kind of makes sense (and are a Fortune 50 company).

 

[AMDZen]

Wait.... women at my office don't bring their newborns into work with them, so whyTF do they need a room to lactate? Is it so they can save it up for when they get back home to feed their kid?

 

[trmiv]

We had two at my last job, this was three years ago. The funny thing is, when we moved into our new building my two co-workers and I had no clue what this little room next to our offices was for. No one else had any idea either. So being IT guys, and seeing that they gave us the key, we used it as a storage room for laptops, desktops, etc. A few months later the building coordinator comes by and says its supposed to be a lactation room, and that some lady needed to use it. There were two, and ours was more convenient for her. Apparently we had to let her use it, so we did. So she was in there amongst our piles of working and broken computers, monitors, software etc pumping her bewbs. That lasted all of two times until she had enough and went to use the other one on the 9th floor.

 

[vi edit]

Yes, because pumping at home is so unreasonable.

It doesn't work that way. If a woman doesn't pump regularly they a) are in a huge amount of discomfort and b) start seeing reduced production.

 

[Crono]

Don't think companies should be required to have an entire room for this. Seems ridiculous.

This is better suited for P&N, by the way.


EDIT: rereading the OP, $500,000 and up seems somewhat reasonable for a "lactation room" requirement.

 

[vi edit]

You heartless brute! Yes, America survived for two centuries without them. But dont you realize this cuts into a womens "me" time?

Hang a couple of these things off your testicles for 30 minutes a pop, 4-8 times a day and tell me it's all about the "me time".

 

[JM Aggie08]

It doesn't work that way. If a woman doesn't pump regularly they a) are in a huge amount of discomfort and b) start seeing reduced production.

In this case, i want a fap room.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

It doesn't work that way. If a woman doesn't pump regularly they a) are in a huge amount of discomfort and b) start seeing reduced production.

I'm curious where my blue balls room is in the building then.

 

[Train]

It would only be fair if males get a room for purging their own milky bodily substances

 

[Lotheron]

It doesn't work that way. If a woman doesn't pump regularly they a) are in a huge amount of discomfort and b) start seeing reduced production.

Yep, it needs to be a continual process. The nursing mother's body needs to think that the milk is still needed or it will simply stop producing.

 

[Train]

In this case, i want a fap room.

lol, beat me to it.

 

[JS80]

Wait.... women at my office don't bring their newborns into work with them, so whyTF do they need a room to lactate? Is it so they can save it up for when they get back home to feed their kid?

My wife pumps her bewbies at her office so her titties don't asplode.

 

[trmiv]

I'm curious where my blue balls room is in the building then.

WTF are you doing at work that you're getting blue balls?

 

[Pegun]

The question is will small businesses currently open be grandfathered in under the old laws? We can't reasonably expect employers to create another room from nothingness, can we?

 

[BRObedoza]

we have one on every other floor. the recliner is hella comfortable i shut off the lights and take naps in there haha

 

[KentState]

What does this have to do with health care reform, besides being in the bill?

 

[IceBergSLiM]

In this case, i want a fap room.

this was the only response