McDonald’s Violating PUMP Act, Breastfeeding Workers’ Suit Says

Two proposed collectives of workers at McDonald’s USA LLC and its franchises say that the fast food chain failed to provide sufficient break time and suitable space for breastfeeding employees.

Kathleen R. Faber and Lexis Mays say that when they first inquired about pumping milk while at work—run by franchisees MBM Management Inc. and Harold T. Clark LLC, respectively—they were told they would be able to. However, they allege in their proposed FLSA collective complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, that they were denied adequate time to pump milk or adequate space to ...