Marshall Space Flight Center Nursing Mothers

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Marshall Space Flight CenterNursing Mothers
ProgramLactation Rooms
Billie Swinford Equal Opportunity Office
June 2003
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Purpose
To provide an accommodation for nursing mothers
to lactate at MSFC during working hours supported
by OPM policy.
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Federal Policy

• OPM says
• Conference Report 107-253, accompanying Public
  Law 107-67, which was enacted on November 12,
  2001, cited the following in Section 631
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
  woman may breastfeed her child at any location in
  a Federal building or on Federal property, if the
  woman and her child are otherwise authorized to
  be present at the location.
• Legislation
• Right to Breast Feed Act (H.R. 1848)
• Ensures a womans right to breast feed her child
  on Federal Property
• Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendment of 1999
  (H.R. 1478)
• Protects breast feeding under civil rights law.
  Until now the courts have not interpreted the
  wording pregnancy, childbirth and related
  medical conditions to include breast feeding
  as illegal grounds for employment decisions.

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Agencies that have implemented Nursing
Mothers Programs
Precedents

• National Security Agency
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition
  Service
• U.S. Office of Personnel Management
• National Institute of Health
• U.S. State Department
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• U.S. General Accounting Office
• U.S. Department of Labor
• NASA GSFC

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MSFCs Implementation Plan

• Implement lactation rooms across the Center using
  a grass-roots, no-cost-to Government approach
• Use existing spaces
• Use excess tables, chairs, temporary partitions
• Provide signage for doors

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MSFCs Implementation Plan
First Phase

• Two rooms are already established
• Building 4663, room A270
• Building 4487, room B100L

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MSFCs Implementation Plan
Second Phase

• Building 4583, room 158 (Now Available!)
• Building 4666, room 286
• Building 4610, room 2041 (Now Available!)
• Building 4200, basement (Now Available!)
• Building 4711, room W115

• Building 4708, room 243
• Building 4755, room 108 (Now Available!)
• New Marshall Child Development Center
• Building 4623, room 105 (Now Available!)
• Propulsion Research Center
• Medical Center

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Next Steps

• Outreach
• Building Managers Meeting
• Super Mom Kickoff Meeting
• Marshall Star Article
• Inside Marshall, Intercom
• Equal Opportunity Website