The New York City Council - File #: Int 0879-2018

• File #: Int 0879-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Requiring certain employers to provide lactation spaces.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Laid Over in Committee
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on Women
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring certain employers to provide lactation spaces
• Sponsors: Laurie A. Cumbo, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Helen K. Rosenthal, Margaret S. Chin, Carlina Rivera , Deborah L. Rose, Diana Ayala , Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Karen Koslowitz, Fernando Cabrera , Costa G. Constantinides

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Governmental Operations	Laid Over by Committee
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Governmental Operations	Hearing Held by Committee
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Women	Laid Over by Committee
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Women	Hearing Held by Committee
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 879

By Council Members Cumbo, Cornegy, Rosenthal, Chin, Rivera, Rose, Ayala, Ampry-Samuel, Koslowitz, Cabrera and Constantinides

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring certain employers to provide lactation spaces
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
31. Employer Lactation Accommodation (a) Definitions. When used in this subdivision, the following terms have the following meanings:
Employer. The term "employer" has the same meaning as such term is defined in section 8-102 of this chapter, provided, however, that when used in this subdivision, the term "employer" shall only include any employer with 15 or more employees.
Lactation space. The term "lactation space" means a sanitary place that is not a restroom that can be used to breastfeed or express milk shielded from view and free from intrusion by coworkers and the public and which includes at minimum an electrical outlet, a chair, a surface to place a breast pump and other personal items and nearby access to running water.
(b) Lactation accommodation. An employer shall, upon request by an employee, provide the following to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk:
(1) A lactation space in reasonable proximity to the employee's work area.
(2) A refrigerator in reasonable proximity to the employee's work area suitable for breast milk storage.
(c) If a space designated by an employer to serve as a lactation space is also used for another purpose, the primary function of the space shall be as a lactation space during the duration of an employee's need to express milk. During the period when the space is being used as a lactation space and also for other purposes, the employer shall provide notice to other employees that ...