Lactation Accommodations Tag

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires all employers to provide reasonable lactation break time and a private place (not a bathroom) for employees to express breast milk during work hours for one year after their child’s birth.  The time doesn’t have to be paid...

Breastfeeding employees who are returning to work usually know how much extra work pumping is going to be. They’ve thought about the bulky pump and its multiple attachments, how they can bring it into and out of the workplace inconspicuously, whether they’ll have time and...