In the UK, breastfeeding mothers have some legal protection under health and safety and sex discrimination laws (see Chapter 3), but unions want to see these strengthened. An RCM motion to the 2021 TUC Congress called for the Acas guidance to be reviewed, strengthened, and placed on a statutory footing. It said many organisations were ignoring the guidance, affecting breastfeeding rates in the UK which are among the lowest in the world.