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(a) The employer shall provide the employee with the use of a room or other location for the employee to express milk in private. The room or location may include the place where the employee normally works if it otherwise meets the requirements of this section.(b) A lactation room or location shall not be a bathroom and shall be in close proximity to the employee’s work area, shielded from view, and free from intrusion while the employee is lactating.
(c) A lactation room or location shall comply with all of the following requirements:
(1) Be safe, clean, and free of toxic or hazardous materials.
(2) Contain a surface to place a breast pump and personal items.
(3) Contain a place to sit.
(4) Have access to electricity or alternative devices needed to operate an electric or battery-powered breast pump.
(d) The employer shall provide access to a sink with running water and a refrigerator suitable for storing milk in close proximity to the employee’s workspace.
If a refrigerator cannot be provided, an employer may provide another cooling device suitable for storing milk, such as an employer-provided cooler.
(e) Where a multipurpose room is used for lactation among other uses, the use of the room for lactation shall take precedence over the other uses, but only for the time it is in use for lactation purposes.
(f) (1) An employer in a multitenant building
or a multiemployer worksite may comply with this section by providing a space shared among multiple employers within the building or worksite if the employer cannot provide a lactation location within the employer’s own workspace.
(2) Employers or general contractors that coordinate a multiemployer worksite shall either provide lactation accommodations or provide a safe and secure location for subcontractor employers to provide lactation accommodation on the worksite, within two business days, upon written request of any subcontractor employer with an employee who requests an accommodation.
(g) An employer may comply with the requirements of this section by designating a lactation location that is temporary, due to operational, financial, or space limitations. These temporary spaces should be identified by signage, free from intrusion while an employee is expressing milk, and should remain lactation spaces for the time they are used for lactation purposes.
(h) An employer with fewer than 50 employees may establish an exemption from any requirement of this section if the employer can show that the requirement would impose an undue hardship when considered in relation to the size,
nature,
or structure of the employer’s business.