A Whataburger in Texas fired a nursing mother for leaving the restaurant to express breast milk, the Labor Department says
A Whataburger restaurant in Texas fired a nursing mother for leaving the site to express breast milk, the Department of Labor says.
The corporate-owned restaurant in Lubbock, northwest Texas, failed to provide reasonable break time for the employee to express breast milk, the DOLUnder the , employers are required to provide staff with reasonable break times to express breast milk for their nursing child for one year after the child's birth.. Employers are also required to give staff a place to pump at work that isn't a bathroom and is shielded from view and free from intrusion.
The DOL said that following its investigation, Whataburger had signed an Enhanced Compliance Agreement stating it would provide FLSA training to all managers in the future and had given $900 in back wages and the same amount in liquidated damages to the worker.
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