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An Amazon spokesperson said the company is unable to allow children under the age of six on any of its fulfilment centre sites (PA).<\/p>\nAmazon has apologised after a company boss was told she could not bring her breastfed baby to a business course held in Fife.<\/p>\n
Rachael Bews, co-founder of Nu Coton, told the company in advance that she would need to breastfeed her five-month-old daughter during the day.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old, from just north of Inverness, said she received a call from Amazon while she was already travelling to the course telling her that the company could not accommodate her circumstances at the fulfilment centre where the programme was being held.<\/p>\n
I believe that all organisations who are running opportunities like this should ensure they are inclusive for all breastfeeding mothers and all parents<\/p>\n
Rachael Bews<\/p>\n
\u201cI assumed they\u2019d be able to accommodate me breastfeeding my baby during the day, with my husband caring for her nearby so I could fully participate,\u201d Ms Bews said on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
\u201cI completely understand the need for strict health and safety rules in an active industrial environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the practical outcome is that I can\u2019t take part on the first day because there isn\u2019t a workable way for me to breastfeed my baby during the programme.\u201d<\/p>\n
An Amazon spokesperson said the company provides paid lactation breaks, flexible scheduling to support lactation needs, and dedicated, private lactation rooms for expressing milk.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, for health and safety reasons, we are unable to allow children under the age of six on any of our fulfilment centre sites,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sincerely apologise to Ms Bews that our site access policy was not communicated clearly before she travelled to the event. That should not have happened, and we understand her frustration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are reviewing our communications process to prevent this from happening again, and have invited her to join us at a future event.\u201d<\/p>\n
An Amazon spokesperson said the company is unable to allow children under the age of six on any of its fulfilment centre sites (PA).<\/p>\n
Bews said the plan was for her husband to care for her daughter elsewhere on the Amazon campus while she attended the workshops.<\/p>\n
She planned to leave to feed her baby when needed, and she said she wasn\u2019t expecting to bring her baby into the fulfilment centre itself.<\/p>\n
Bews said she had already spent almost \u00a380 on train tickets, and was travelling to the Dunfermline campus when she was told that, due to health and safety requirements, babies and young children could not be brought on site.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt really, almost humiliated,\u201d Ms Bews told PA Scotland.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was something that I honestly hadn\u2019t even considered would be an issue, and the fact that it turned out to be a barrier to my participation made me feel really isolated.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she has seen other respected peers and colleagues participate in Amazon accelerator programmes, and she said they have benefited from the opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the fact that because I have a baby and I wasn\u2019t able to participate within that initial session of the accelerator that\u2019s such a key part of the programme made me feel very isolated and really upset and really disappointed because I\u2019ve been looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bews told PA Scotland she was grateful for Amazon\u2019s understanding of her frustration, but she said she does not believe that is enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that all organisations who are running opportunities like this should ensure they are inclusive for all breastfeeding mothers and all parents,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA babe in arms should really be permitted on site of events and programmes such as these to enable mothers to continue breastfeeding, so they\u2019re not having to choose between accessing valuable opportunities and feeding their babies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has apologised after a company boss was told she could not bring her breastfed baby to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-538949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}