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Thanks to a new law, companies in California must have adequate spaces for mothers to express milk

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Breastfeeding and working is not something that is easy for many women, mainly because in most workplaces, there is no designated space for them to express milk during their workday.

In many companies, the “lactation rooms” that are available to mothers are the office bathroom, a place that is definitely not the best or the most appropriate. But in California, that will no longer happen, thanks to a new law, which requires companies to have adequate spaces, so that nursing mothers can express breast milk .

In fact, for some years there was a law in which it was indicated that all employers must have a space other than a cubicle within the company’s bathrooms, which many took advantage of to continue sending them to the bathroom, but placing a chair in a corner and thus “comply” with what the law said.

Now, the new law clearly and explicitly indicates that the bathroom is not the space that mothers deserve to express milk , and that now “they must make reasonable efforts to provide employees with the use of a room or other space, which not a bath, for these purposes “, that is, for those who continue to breastfeed when they return to work after maternity leave.

It seems like an insignificant change of a few words, but in reality, its impact is very great, because now it will not only be forbidden to continue with this unpleasant practice of sending mothers to a bathroom , but a way will have to be found to provide them with a space in which they can do it comfortably.

The new law specifies that, in the event that due to issues of space, structure or the nature of the company’s facilities, it is not possible to have a room exclusively designated for nursing mothers, they must provide a room close to the employee’s work area. , so that you can express milk in private . In case of not complying with the new law, employers will be fined.

News and laws like this one are of the utmost importance to continue promoting and protecting breastfeeding , since returning to work is one of the main reasons why mothers abandon breastfeeding before six months.

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Via | Motherly

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