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Governor's
Office
Louisiana Commission
on
Human Rights
The Louisiana Commission on Human Rights (LCHR)
operates under the auspices of LSA 51:2231 et seq.,
amended and 23:301 et seq., as amended. LCHR handles
complaints of employment discrimination based on race,
color, religion , sex, disability, age, sickle cell
trait, pregnancy, child birth and related medical
conditions. Your employer must have a minimum of 20
employees to file a complaint under race, color, sex,
national origin, religion and disability in employment
discrimination. To file under the basis of age your
employer must have 20 employees and you must be age 40
or over, sickle cell trait requires at least 20
employees and pregnancy, childbirth and related medical
conditions requires more than 25 employees. The last
alleged act involving discrimination must have occurred
within the past 180 days. LCHR also provides protection
against discrimination in public accommodations and
banking and lending.
Breast feeding Discriminatory
Practices Prohibited
LSA R.S. 2241.1 Breast feeding; discriminatory
practices prohibited
In
summary, the LCHR now has enforcement powers relative to
breast feeding. It stipulates that “a mother may breast
feed her baby in any place of public accommodation,
resort, or amusement in a effort to maintain family
values and infant health demands. Any direct or
indirect act or practice of exclusion, distinction,
restriction, segregation, limitation, refusal, denial,
or any other act or practice of differentiation or
preference in treatment of a mother breast feeding...
It is a discriminatory practice in connection with
public accommodations for a person to deny an individual
the full enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities,
privileges, advantages and accommodations of public
accommodation, resort, or amusement.”
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