While many companies and organizations view lactation support as part of an overall corporate wellness strategy and are quite pro-active in their support of employees returning to work and
needing lactation accommodation, some careers are more difficult for women to navigate when combining work and breast milk expression.
The survey also checked whether districts have clear policies governing pregnant and parenting students, a student policy that
includes lactation accommodation — time and space to pump milk, other than a toilet stall — and an identifiable Title IX Coordinator on staff.
Collaboration with Human Resources resulted in
a lactation accommodation request form.
A recent study by the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health revealed that 60 percent of new mothers in the workforce do not have
lactation accommodations, even though it is required by federal law.
Laws, P.A. 99 - 228 creates
the Lactation Accommodation in Airports Act and requires that airport managers to provide a room or other location space at each airport terminal behind the airport security screening area for members of the public to express breast milk in private.
Question: Do AB 302: Pupil Services:
Lactation Accommodations and AB 1025: Lactation Accommodation apply to charter schools?