Employment Law Alert: Employers’ Obligations Towards Employees Who Need To Express Breast Milk In The Workplace

As of June 19, 2024, employers are required to provide “paid break time for thirty minutes, and permit an employee to use existing paid break time for a meal time for time in excess of thirty minutes” to allow the employee to express breast milk when an employee “reasonably” needs to do so.

Prior state law permitted unpaid breaks of at least twenty to thirty minutes at least once every three hours. Now, that time has to be...

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