Ohio Bill on Non-Discrimination for Breast Feeding Introduced

HB488, introduced earlier this week in the Ohio General Assembly, is a bill to expand the prohibition against sex discrimination to include lactation and breast feeding at work. The language of the bill provides that:

“[a]n employer shall provide to each lactating employee reasonable, unpaid time each day to permit the lactating employee to express breast milk…”

and further

“[a]n employer shall make a reasonable effort to provide a sanitary room or other area in close proximity to the work area, that is not a toilet stall, where a lactating employee can express breast milk in privacy.”

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