The New York City Council - File #: Int 0905-2018

• File #: Int 0905-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Requiring employers to implement a lactation accommodation policy.
• 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 employers to implement a lactation accommodation policy
• Sponsors: Carlina Rivera , Laurie A. Cumbo, Keith Powers , Diana Ayala , 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. 905

By Council Members Rivera, Cumbo, Powers, Ayala, Cabrera and Constantinides

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring employers to implement a lactation accommodation policy
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 Policies (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 in an action pursuant to this section, the term "employer" shall include any employer, including those with fewer than four 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) Employer lactation policy. An employer shall develop and implement a policy regarding lactation spaces to be distributed to all employees upon hiring. The policy shall:
(1) Include a statement that employees have a right to request a lactation space.
(2) Identify a process by which an employee may request a lactation space. This process shall:
(A) Specify the means by which an employee may submit a request for a lactation space.
(B) Require that the employer respond to a request for a lactation space within five business days.
(C) State that, if in response to a request for a lactation space, the employer does not provide a lactation space, the employer must provide the employee with a written response that identif...