Governor Jack Markell is being called on to provide additional secure rooms for state workers who need to pump breast milk for their babies.
Nicole DeForest is a secretary with the state’s Division of Facilities Management.
She says that her supervisor told her to use a storage closet to pump her breast milk.
She has filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for failing to provide adequate accommodations as required under federal law.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies be exclusively breast fed during the first six months of life and says that it is even more beneficial for up to a year.
DeForest said the she had planned to nurse her now 14-month-old daughter Elly for one year.
But, she said, when she returned after maternity leave she found that nearly impossible to do in her state job.
