Did you know that some companies dock women's pay for breastfeeding or expressing on the job? Find out why one organisation is putting workers' rights on the agenda this SAElection2019 via Bhekisisa_MG.
And the country’s labour laws aren’t helping., taking working mothers away from their babies, and making it close to impossible to breastfeed their children exclusively for an entire six months, unless they’re able to express milk and appoint someone to feed it to their infants.
breastfeeding parents should get two feeding or expressing breaks of 30 minutes each, in addition to their lunch break found that almost half of the employers surveyed deducted pay for those breaks, putting further pressure on breastfeeding mothersAnd, few workplaces in South Africa provide spaces where working mothers can safely express and store their breast milk.
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