While lactation accommodation requirements are not new to California employers, Senate Bill 142 significantly expands an employer’s obligation to provide lactation accommodations and provides new consequences for noncompliance. California employers should be aware of these new obligations to ensure their work sites are compliant by the Jan. 1, 2020, effective date.

Under current California law, employers are required to make reasonable efforts to provide a private location, other than a bathroom, in close proximity to the employee’s work space for the employee to express milk in private and to provide reasonable break time to express milk. Currently, the break time “shall, if possible, run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee.” The new law also clarifies that a reasonable amount of time must be provided each time the employee has a need to express milk. 

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