Lactation 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.

Lactation room law.

The law requires employers to provide a place that is not a bathroom. 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. It also must be functional useable as a space for expressing breast milk. 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.

Pennsylvania state law also exempts breastfeeding mothers from public indecency laws. Specifically the federal lactation room law states that any covered employer under the flsa must provide its non exempt employees with reasonable break time for a period of one year after the. 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. 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.

These accommodations include time for women to express milk and a private space that is not a bathroom each time they need to pump. 55 5 5 1106 2018 provides that on or before june 1 2019 every facility that houses a circuit court room shall include at least one lactation room or area for members of the public to express breast milk in private that is located outside the confines of a restroom and includes at minimum a chair a table and an electrical outlet as well as a sink with running water where possible. 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.