Set up breasts feeding corner by any means factories: HC
The High Courtroom ordered to create breast feeding corner whatsoever professional unites including garment factories in the united states within two months.
Justice M Enayetur and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order on Tuesday while reading a supplementary writ petition.
The court also asked secretary of Labour and Job Ministry and chairman of the Department of Labour to submit a compliance report within 60 times.
Advocate Ishrat Hasan stood with respect to the petitioner.
On October 24, 2019, Advocate Israt Hasan, a mother of nine-month-old baby Umair Bin Sadi, filed the writ seeking a safe atmosphere for breastfeeding.
Following writ, the High Court docket on October 27, this past year, given a rule requesting the authorities worried to explain as to why directives shouldn't be given to create breastfeeding and baby-care corners at workplaces, airports, bus ceases, railway stations and stores.
It also wished to know why the Women and Children Affairs Ministry should not be directed to formulate suggestions to determine breastfeeding corners in public areas and private institutions.
UNB adds: Israt Hasan said that there surely is a provision in the Bangladesh Labour Function-2006 for setting up breastfeeding place in workplaces, but there is no implementation.
Matching to section 94 (Rooms for Children) (7), in the Bangladesh Labour Respond-2006, rooms will be adequately furnished and specifically, 1 (one) cot or cradle with bed shall be retained therefore each young one, and there will be at least one chair or similar couch for the utilization of each mom while she actually is feeding or joining to her child and sufficient and suitable figures shall be supplied for the comparatively teenagers.
She also said mothers often face embarrassing situation to breastfeed their children at consumer places. So breastfeeding corners have to be set up in such places so that they do not feel discomfort to breastfeed their children.
