Mother wants transfer closer to home to breastfeed premature baby

A mother has described as “shameful” her employer’s failure to grant her a work transfer to facilitate her breastfeeding her prematurely born baby.

In a case before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the paramedic within the ambulance service was seeking an order granting her a transfer to be near her home to allow her to breastfeed her boy.

Travel to her workplace is a round trip of 290km, which takes her about four hours and 20 minutes to complete each day.