Effective today, June 7, 2023, New York State law will require all employers, public or private and regardless of size, to provide employees with reasonable unpaid time to express breast milk at work for up to three years following childbirth, as well as a lactation room in which to do so. A similar federal law, Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act, went into effect last month. And later this month, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, requiring reasonable accommodations for medical conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth, goes into effect.
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