Colorado Breastfeeding Laws
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Workplace Accommodation for Nursing Mothers Act (Colorado Revised Statutes 8-13.5-104)
Establishes a standard for ALL employers to express breast milk in the workplace. Employers must:
- Provide reasonable unpaid break time, or allow an employee to use paid break and/or meal time, to express breast milk for her nursing child up to 2 years after the child’s birth;
- Make reasonable efforts to provide a nursing mother with a private space in close proximity to her work area – other than a toilet stall – in which to express breast milk; and
- Not discriminate against women for expressing milk in the workplace.
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Public Breastfeeding Law (Colorado Revised Statutes 25-6-302)
Establishes a mother may breastfeed in any place she has a right to be.
Colorado is involved in the national movement to recognize the medical importance of breastfeeding, within the scope of complete pediatric care, and to encourage removal of societal boundaries placed on breastfeeding in public.
Postponement of Jury Service for a Person Who is Breastfeeding a Child Act (Colorado Revised Statutes 13-71-119.5)
Establishes that a person who is breastfeeding a child is eligible for two, 12 month postponements of jury service.
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FLSA Protections for Employees to Pump Breast Milk at Work Fact Sheet 73
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