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An employer has to pay $90k in damages, and it has six months to produce a policy on expressing milk at work, after a tribunal found it discriminated against a breastfeeding mother.

The orders aimed to acknowledge the community's appreciation of the hurt and humiliation experienced by victims of sex-based discriminatory behaviour, and the value of loss of enjoyment of life occasioned by mental illness or distress caused by such conduct, ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal Presidential Member Heidi Robinson and Senior Member Lea Drake said in their judgment...