Lactation Room Law

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 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. 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. Pennsylvania state law also exempts breastfeeding mothers from public indecency laws. These accommodations include time for women to express milk and a private space that is not a bathroom each time they need to pump.

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. 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. 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 which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.

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. It also must be functional useable as a space for expressing breast milk. 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.