California Law Updates Lactation Rules to Exclude Bathrooms

California employers will have to provide nursing mothers a private lactation space at work that isn’t a bathroom under a measure signed into law Sept. 30 by Gov. Jerry Brown (D).

The measure (AB 1976) strengthens existing workplace requirements for lactation accommodations in the state, which before only required employers to make a reasonable effort to provide workers with a private space to pump breast milk beyond a toilet stall. Under the new law, employers must provide at least a temporary lactation location that meets specified conditions, including that the temporary location be used only for lactation purposes ...