At 10 a.m., the NYC Council Committee on Women's Issues holds a public meeting on
requiring lactation rooms in certain locations providing services to the public, 250 Broadway, Committee Room, 14th floor, Manhattan.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk,
Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
Perhaps you are the first woman to give birth since the law changed
requiring lactation rooms.
HAPPY BELATED MOTHER»S DAY — NBC News 4: «City council members are introducing a series of Mother's Day - inspired bills that would
require lactation rooms in most workplaces and provide diapers in homeless shelters and subsidized daycares.
Not exact matches
Recently, a survey reveals that despite new state and federal workplace laws that
require certain employers to provide moms who breastfeed or pump with
lactation room, ideally a private space with a chair, table and electrical outlet, airports are doing a pretty lame job one at that.
Much of the recent attention to pumping has centered on its politics, including laws
requiring insurance companies to cover pump costs and corporations to provide
lactation rooms.
Women who go back to work right after giving birth might not have the time to establish breastfeeding — and even if they do, they might have trouble finding a place to pump, as only employers with more than 50 workers are
required to provide employees with a clean
lactation room.
The Act, if made into law, would
require airports to provide accessible, safe, clean, and convenient
lactation rooms for travelers.
RACHEL JACKSON: So it was mentioned before that, there is federal legislation so there's friendly airports of mothers that was introduced by representative Tinny Duckworth and that's basically
requiring all federal airports to implement
lactation rooms.
For those
requiring additional privacy, the Center has two
lactation rooms for nursing moms, located in the First Aid offices in South Hall Lobby (main level by Pico Street entrance) and in West Hall Lobby (outside Hall A — across from Petree C).»
PIX 11 story on Mayor de Blasio signing a bill introduced by BP Adams that will
requiring many municipal agencies to provide
lactation rooms for breastfeeding and expressing milk.
DNAinfo article on the passage of legislation proposed by BP Adams
requiring many municipal agencies to provide
lactation rooms for breastfeeding and expressing milk.
Last month, the City Council passed a bill that
requires job centers, food stamps offices, and city - owned offices for the Administration for Children's Services to have at least one
lactation room available.