Nursing Mothers Room Law

If more than one breastfeeding employee will need the space mothers can develop a room use schedule or the employer can install privacy curtains or dividers so that the room can be used by more than one person at a time.

Nursing mothers room law. Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for one year after the child s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk section 7 of the flsa 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. 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. If there are no breastfeeding employees the employer does not need to maintain a space. Correction law 611 2009 allows a mother of a nursing child to be accompanied by her child if she is committed to a correctional facility at the time she is breastfeeding.

A room for nursing mothers is private space a nursing mother can use to express milk. Guidelines regarding the rights of nursing mothers to express breast milk in the work place. Your right as a nursing mother to pump breast milk at work p708. A an employer must provide reasonable unpaid break time each day to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her infant child.

Breastfeeding mothers going back to work. The federal health care reform bill signed on march 23 2010 contained an amendment to the flsa new section 207 r 1 requiring employers to give breaks for nursing. 111 148 known as the affordable care act amended section 7 of the fair labor standards act flsa to require employers to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for one year after the child s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk. Employers of nursing mothers faqs breaktime for nursing mothers.

These accommodations include time for women to express milk and a private space that is not a bathroom each time they need to pump. Under that new flsa provision a non exempt employee is entitled to a reasonable break time to express breast milk for her nursing child each time the. This law also permits a child born to a committed mother to return with the mother to the correctional facility. About the law the patient protection and affordable care act p l.

A nursing mother s room must be functional with a private space with a place to sit and a flat surface other than the floor.