Nursing Mothers Room Requirements

Code 22 1 13 2006 allows a mother to breastfeed her child in any public or private location.

Nursing mothers room requirements. A room for nursing mothers is private space a nursing mother can use to express milk. Additional guidance is provided by the office of personnel management opm and the department of labor dol. If there are no breastfeeding employees the employer does not need to maintain a space. Commercial airports will be required to provide lactation rooms at each passenger terminal building of the.

This fact sheet provides general information on the break time requirement for nursing mothers in the patient protection and affordable care act ppaca which took effect when the ppaca was signed into law on march 23 2010 p l. Requirements these rooms should provide access to electricity for the use of a breast pump as well as good lighting a comfortable temperature and proper ventilation. This law amended section 7 of the fair labor standards act flsa. Comfortable spaces for nih and visiting nursing mothers to staff express milk.

Lactation rooms should not be in or accessed through bathrooms locker rooms or similar facilities but should be distinct rooms. Nursing moms will soon find it easier to travel through airports across the country. Further a room for. 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.

The minimum requirements are. 29 25 080 and 01 10 060 1998 prohibit a municipality from enacting an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a woman breastfeeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be. This may be the mother s own office or a multi purpose space such as a conference room vacant office storeroom or someone else s office adapted on a temporary basis for the purposes of pumping or breastfeeding. 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.

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. These accommodations include time for women to express milk and a private space that is not a bathroom each time they need to pump.