Article about madatory pumping time

[Can Dance]

What do you guys thing? Do you think this doesn't help working moms, as this article suggests?
http://daily.gazette.com/Repository/...sh-skin-custom

[shoes]

Something is better than nothing! It's a pretty good start I think. I wish there was even a vague law in place when I pumped at work. I had a heck of a time trying to figure out my rights and justify what I was doing.

[MeepyCat]

It sounds like the editorial writer is arguing that good people are good voluntarily (so the law doesn't affect them), and bad people will use this law as an excuse to be worse. A lot of the consequences this writer sees arising from the law are things that already happen (have you ever searched for a job while pregnant?), which there are already anti-discrimination laws in place to try to prevent.

The editorial is arguing that less law is better than more law, which may be a defendable position, but me, I like the protection for breastfeeding women. The women employed by understanding employers tend to be higher up the socioeconomic ladder than average, and lower down, things are much harder. A law may allow individual managers to do better by employees even in the face of pressure to focus on the bottom line. The law is a little vague, but if it was more precise, I'm not sure it would be better. The law gives women something to fall back on when and if their employers are jerks.

I also think the writer missed some possible worst-case scenarios, like breastfeeding woman gets mastitis, misses days of work, gets fired for using "too much" sick time. How many of us have *any* sick time left after returning from maternity leave anyway?

The United States is a culture that fetishizes babies while providing no support to the people raising them. If the capitalist system is going to tell us (as it does) that we *should* have babies, and that we had better raise them without any kind of public assistance, the least the law can do is defend women who are doing their best to do just that.

[mamajake]

I wish the new Colorado law were stronger but it is better than some and certainly better than nothing. The author seems to feel some obligation to be critical but he or she can't both argue that "good" people will be "good" regardless of the law and that the law is a bad thing because vagueness allows for bad behavior. The lack of a law allows for bad behavior as well. Somehow, the "good" people who didn't need the law to accommodate pumping employees are suddenly "bad" people who will use the law to limit pumping? That is just nonsense.

This quote: ""Successful businesses and desirable workplaces ... already accommodate women who breastfeed children. They already meet or exceed the requirements of this law." also makes me bang my head. Desirable workplaces? Yes. "Successful" businesses? Give me a break - literally. The statistics do not support this, unless only twenty percent of businesses are "successful" by that writer's definition.