Requires an employer to provide paid break time of up to thirty minutes and permit an employee to use existing paid break time or meal time for time in excess of thirty minutes to an employee to express breast milk.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9506
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to nursing employees' right
to express breast milk
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 206-c of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 672 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. An employer shall provide [reasonable unpaid] paid break time [or]
4 for thirty minutes, and permit an employee to use existing paid break
5 time or meal time for time in excess of thirty minutes, to allow an
6 employee to express breast milk for [her] such employee's nursing child
7 each time such employee has reasonable need to express breast milk for
8 up to three years following child birth. No employer shall discriminate
9 in any way against an employee who chooses to express breast milk in the
10 work place. The provisions of this subdivision shall not prevent an
11 employer from providing additional paid break time for such purposes.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14911-01-4