Ritter signs bill allowing moms to pump breast milk at work
4/7/2008 - 11:29am
Women in Colorado will have the right pump breast milk at work under legislation that Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law today.
House Bill 1276, sponsored by Rep. Andy Kerr, D-Lakewood, will require that employers allow women employees use their break time or lunch hours to express breast milk at work, and it requires employers to make "reasonable efforts" to provide the moms with some area other than a toilet stall to pump milk.
Nursing moms couldn't sue their employers for violating the law until after they had gone through non-binding mediation with the employer.
The measure doesn't take effect until August.
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