{"id":3438,"date":"2020-06-26T03:19:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaudylaw.com\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T01:04:04","slug":"changes-to-lactation-requirements-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/business-legal-tips\/changes-to-lactation-requirements-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to lactation requirements in California&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Big news on expanding the California Labor Code and Health and Safety Code to require additional lactation accommodation for employees.\u00a0<br><br>Under a new Lactation law,\u00a0effective\u00a0January 1, 2020, lactation space must be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>shielded from view;<\/li><li>free from intrusion;<\/li><li>located in close proximity to employee\u2019s work area;<\/li><li>safe, clean, and free of toxic or hazardous materials;<\/li><li>provide a place to sit and a surface for a pump and personal items;<\/li><li>have access to electricity, and have access to a sink and refrigerator.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If a multi-purpose room is used as the lactation space, then its use as a lactation space must take precedence.\u00a0The new law also required employers to develop a lactation accommodation policy.\u00a0<br><br>This is a reminder\u00a0to review your existing policies and facilities to determine whether they will comply with the new law.\u00a0<br><br>Certainly, any newly developed policy should be incorporated into employee handbooks this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news on expanding the California Labor Code and Health and Safety Code to require additional lactation accommodation for employees.\u00a0 Under a new Lactation law,\u00a0effective\u00a0January 1, 2020, lactation space must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[490],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}