Sentences with phrase «lactation breaks»

If you're at work, you have limited lactation break.

Many Australian employers are recognising that the needs of a breastfeeding employee are short lived, and that providing lactation breaks is a simple way to support them.

Breastfeeding moms are entitled to lactation periods at work, requiring a minimum of a 40 minute lactation break for every eight hour working period, which can be broken up throughout the day.

Rather than taking the paid lactation breaks provided by my employer I negotiated a reduction in my part - time hours instead.

While lactation breaks are becoming more common, access to breaks and breastfeeding support is still being negotiated on an individual basis in many non-accredited workplaces.

First, the new health reform legislation only began in January of this year and only gives UNPAID lactation breaks to employees of SOME companies with 60 or more employees.

The legislation approval furthers California and federal law that already requires employers to make their best efforts to provide nursing mothers with lactation breaks.

Australian employers are not legally obliged to provide lactation breaks to their employees, however the International Labor Organization (ILO) recommends that breastfeeding women be entitled to at least one break per day for lactation, and that can also be accessed as a reduction in hours.