PUMPING IN THE WORKPLACE: PROPOSED LEGISLATION
A. An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid break time each day to an employee who needs to breast-feed or express breast milk for her child to maintain milk supply and comfort. The break time, if possible, shall run concurrently with any break time, paid or unpaid, already provided to the employee.
B. An employer shall make a reasonable effort to provide a private, secure, and sanitary room or other location in close proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where an employee can express her milk or breast-feed her child. The room or location may include the place where the employee normally works if it otherwise meets the requirements of this section.
This statute is modeled after the Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Tennessee, Illinois, Minnesota, and Georgia statutes, which all have similar language and structure.
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