Teacher settles with school after being fired for pumping breast milk
A Jefferson County teacher who says she was fired for expressing breast milk at work won't ask for her job back, but a settlement in her claim against Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen sets precedent for other employers of working moms, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday.
"This case is really just one of so many examples of employers simply being ignorant to what they're required to do to accommodate working mothers," said ACLU of Colorado Cooperating Attorney, Mari Newman.
Heather Burgbacher said her contract with the K-8 charter school was not renewed in Feb. 18, 2011, after she asked that her teaching schedule be changed to accommodate breast-milk
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