Lactation Room Law

Lactation accommodation pursuant to labor code section 1030 every employer including the state and any political subdivision must provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk for the employee s infant child.

Lactation room law.

The federal break time for nursing mothers law requires employers covered by the fair labor standards act flsa to provide basic accommodations for breastfeeding mothers at work. These accommodations include time for women to express milk and a private space that is not a bathroom each time they need to pump. It also must be functional useable as a space for expressing breast milk. Employers are also required to provide a place other than a bathroom that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.

The law requires employers to provide a place that is not a bathroom. Pennsylvania state law also exempts breastfeeding mothers from public indecency laws. In 2018 pennsylvania s department of general services created a policy requiring all new state owned and leased buildings to have at least one lactation space for nursing mothers. Needs and benefits of the lactation room law in addition to creating a private space where breastfeeding employees can pump milk employers must also provide reasonable break time for them to do so.

It must be completely private so that no one can see inside the space and no one is able to enter the space while it is being used. Until a baby reaches their first birthday nursing moms may take time to get to the lactation room as well as the time needed for pumping sessions. Lactation accommodations local law 185 and local law 186 both passed in 2018 require that employers provide employees with lactation accommodations including a lactation room where employees can pump express breast milk and reasonable time to pump express breast milk.