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Women in Colorado will have the right to pump breast milk at work under legislation that Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law Monday.
House Bill 1276, sponsored by Rep. Andy Kerr, D-Lakewood, will require that employers allow women to 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 can’t sue their employers for violating the law until after they have gone through nonbinding mediation with the employer.
The law takes effect in August.
