Nursing Mother. It shall be the employee’s responsibility to notify the principal of the need to express milk during the workday. The employee, school nurse, and principal shall meet and make arrangements that include the following: a designated location, an agreed upon number of expression times per day and the length of time per expression. The designated location shall be a room or location that is within the school building and will provide the employee with privacy and sanitary conditions.
Nursing Mother. The Agency shall provide nursing mothers with a reasonable break time to express breast milk whenever needed throughout the workday. The frequency and length of such breaks may vary depending on the needs of the nursing mother, e.g., the time required to express milk. If extra time is needed, an option may be for time to be made up before or after work, through Telework arrangements, or by using other work schedule flexibilities. If the Department issues guidance under which the Employer is authorized to permit nursing mothers additional paid time to express milk, the Employer shall notify the Union and give it an opportunity to bargain about the subject. No adverse action or recourse will be based on an employee’s desire to breastfeed. For further guidance regarding Breastfeeding see the USDA Nursing Mothers Support Program Handbook. Nursing mothers may submit written requests to their immediate supervisors or designees to be permitted time to express and save milk in a private place other than a bathroom (i.e., space shielded from view and free from intrusion by coworkers and the public) while at the workplace. Such requests shall be submitted sufficiently far in advance as to allow time for the supervisor/designee to make the arrangements, and shall specify:
