Dispatch:
A Cincinnati-area company didn't discriminate against a new mother when it fired her for taking unauthorized breaks to pump milk from her breasts, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning.
Totes/Isotoner, an outerwear manufacturer in West Chester, did not violate Ohio's pregnancy-discrimination law by firing general laborer LaNisa Allen for taking lactation breaks four hours into her shift.....
...The court, however, said Totes/Isotoner was within its rights to fire Allen for "failure to follow directions.".....
There seems to be something wrong here. Why didn't Totes/Isotoner try to work with the woman first? Wasn't there another way to try to help the woman keep her job? Besides, don't smokers take "unauthorized breaks" repeatedly each day?