--- title: Breastfeeding Discrimination Lawsuits Rise 800% description: Lactation cases are a part of employment discrimination cases that center around a woman's right and ability to breastfeed in the workplace. canonical: https://time.com/4337671/breastfeeding-lawsuits-employee-discrimination/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-17T13:35:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:29.544Z og:title: Breastfeeding Discrimination Lawsuits Rise 800% og:description: The number of cases will likely continue to increase og:url: https://time.com/4337671/breastfeeding-lawsuits-employee-discrimination/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt333c6c5bfdf958ae/69889365bc6cfc6f053dd01b/lawsuit-discrimination-lactation-workplace.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5700 og:image:height: 3206 og:image:alt: Three baby bottles og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Breastfeeding Discrimination Lawsuits Rise 800% twitter:description: The number of cases will likely continue to increase twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt333c6c5bfdf958ae/69889365bc6cfc6f053dd01b/lawsuit-discrimination-lactation-workplace.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Breastfeeding Discrimination Lawsuits Rose 800% in the Past Decade > Sponsored content. 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There has been an 800% increase in breastfeeding-related discrimination lawsuits in the last decade, according to a new [report](http://www.worklifelaw.org/pubs/FRDupdate2016.pdf) from the Center for Worklife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. The spike is part of a larger trend of [rising caregiver discrimination lawsuits](http://time.com/4337233/family-responsibilities-discrimination/). Lactation discrimination cases are a subset of employment discrimination cases that center around a woman’s right and ability to breastfeed or pump in the workplace. As of [2010](https://www.dol.gov/whd/nursingmothers/Sec7rFLSA%5Fbtnm.htm), employers are required to provide a nursing mother break time to express breast milk after the birth of her child, and employers must also provide a place for mothers to express breast milk. Subsequent laws in some states have allowed for those places to not be restrooms. But some employers have punished women for taking time out of the workday to pump or nurse—or failed to provide adequate places in which to express breast milk. [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ Recent rulings may further increase the number of breastfeeding-related cases that go to court. In the 2014 ruling _Allen-Brown v. 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