Breastfeeding in the Philippine workplace: What’s wrong with the right?

• Main Author: Salcedo, Emily Sanchez
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Breastfeeding—Law and legislation; Breastfeeding—Law and legislation > Philippines; Family Law; Public Law and Legal Theory; Social Welfare Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2388
• Institution: De La Salle University

There are four main differences between the Philippine and American statutes that promote breastfeeding. First, the Philippine law provides that lactation breaks should be compensated while the American law explicitly stated that employers are under no such obligation. Second, the Philippine law pro...