Human Resource and Labor News

August 2010 Archive

DOL Issues Guidance on Breaks for Nursing Mothers Under the FLSA

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division posted a new fact sheet that provides guidance to employers on the break time requirement for nursing mothers to express milk in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  The Act became effective on March 23, 2010, and amended Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA.) 

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