Accommodations for Lactating Employees

The school district shall provide an appropriate private, secure and sanitary room, other than a restroom, for an employee to express breast milk or breastfeed her child. School administrators shall make available a clean, accessible room with a lock or privacy sign.

The district shall provide lactating employees a reasonable amount of break time to express milk. The employee shall, to the extent possible, take breaks to express milk concurrently with the break times that are otherwise provided to the employee.

Employees must inform the building principal of the need to express breast milk and work collaboratively to develop a plan to accommodate the needs ofthe employee while ensuring that the employee's students are appropriately supervised.

Legal Citations

The qualifications and procedures outlined in this policy are based upon the following:

• 70 O.S. § 5-149.3