HF 3098

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to employment; requiring locks or other 
  1.3             security devices to ensure privacy for nursing mothers 
  1.4             in the workplace; amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, 
  1.5             section 181.939. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 181.939, is 
  1.8   amended to read: 
  1.9      181.939 [NURSING MOTHER.] 
  1.10     An employer must provide reasonable unpaid break time each 
  1.11  day to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her 
  1.12  infant child.  The break time must, if possible, run 
  1.13  concurrently with any break time already provided to the 
  1.14  employee.  An employer is not required to provide break time 
  1.15  under this section if to do so would unduly disrupt the 
  1.16  operations of the employer. 
  1.17     The employer must make reasonable efforts to provide a room 
  1.18  or other location, in close proximity to the work area, other 
  1.19  than a toilet stall, where the employee can express her milk in 
  1.20  privacy.  The employer must make reasonable efforts to provide 
  1.21  the room or other location with a locking door or other security 
  1.22  device to ensure the privacy of the employee.  The door lock or 
  1.23  other security device must allow for outside access in case of 
  1.24  emergency.  The employer would be held harmless if reasonable 
  1.25  effort has been made. 
  2.1      For the purposes of this section, "employer" means a person 
  2.2   or entity that employs one or more employees and includes the 
  2.3   state and its political subdivisions.