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April 11, 2019
Pregnancy Discrimination

New Lactation Room Law Featured on Mindr

Thank you, Mindr, for the opportunity to spread more information regarding New York City’s new lactation law!

Backgrounder: New York City's new lactation law

Any new mom who has navigated the return to work while still nursing a little one knows that sinking feeling. Searching for the quietest breast pump on the market, in order to pump stealthily in a small cubicle with colleagues 3 feet away. Expressing milk while perched on the edge

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With Michael Bloomberg in the Race, It's Time We Talk About NDAs (again)

February 25, 2020
Pregnancy Discrimination
Sexual Harassment
In 2018, Governor Cuomo signed a law that banned many NDAs and mandatory arbitration for complaints, but some activists and policymakers argued that the state had focused too narrowly on sexual harassment, and the 2019 laws expanded the 2018 laws to include protections against NDAs in other forms of workplace discrimination.

The Postpartum Ad the Oscars Wouldn't Run

February 24, 2020
Pregnancy Discrimination
Paid Family Leave
Sometimes reality is too real for Hollywood and the culture machine, as was demonstrated when ABC and the Academy decided not to air an ad dealing straightforwardly with the reality of postpartum life. The ad for Frida Mom, a retailer in the baby and new mother field, depicted a women confronting in a realistic manner the stress and changes that occur for new mothers.

Associate Alex Berke quoted in Mother Jones on Defamation and Sexual Harassment

February 18, 2020
Sexual Harassment
Alex Berke, an employment lawyer in New York, says she asks men what their goal is when they come to her after being accused of sexual harassment. Will a lawsuit really stop people from talking about them?
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