HF 3459

1st Engrossment - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to employment; requiring an accommodation to 
  1.3             certain nursing mothers; proposing coding for new law 
  1.4             in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 181. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [181.939] [NURSING MOTHER.] 
  1.7      An employer must provide reasonable unpaid break time each 
  1.8   day to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her 
  1.9   infant child.  The employer must make reasonable efforts to 
  1.10  provide a room or other location, in close proximity to the work 
  1.11  area, other than a toilet stall, where the employee can express 
  1.12  her milk in privacy.  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     For the purposes of this section, "employer" means a person 
  1.18  or entity that employs one or more employees and includes the 
  1.19  state and its political subdivisions.