Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 40-435
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Break time and accommodations for expressing milk or
Official statutory text
breast-feeding.
A. 1. An employer other than a state agency may provide
reasonable unpaid break time each day to an employee who needs to
breast-feed or express breast milk for her child to maintain milk
supply and comfort. The break time, if possible, shall run
concurrently with any break time, paid or unpaid, already provided
to the employee. An employer is not required to provide break time
under this section if to do so would create an undue hardship on the
operations of the employer.
2. Every state agency shall allow an employee who is lactating
reasonable paid break time each day to use the designated lactation
room for the purpose of maintaining milk supply and comfort.
B. An employer may make a reasonable effort to provide a
private, secure, and sanitary room or other location in close
proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where an
employee can express her milk or breast-feed her child.
C. The Department of Health shall issue periodic reports on
breast-feeding rates, complaints received, and benefits reported by
both working breast-feeding mothers and employers.
D. As used in this section:
1. "Employer" means a person engaged in business who has one or
more employees, including the state and any political subdivision of
the state;
2. "Employee" means any person engaged in service to an
employer in the business of the employer;
3. "Reasonable" means any effort that would not impose an undue
hardship on the operation of the employer's business; and
4. "Undue hardship" means any action that requires significant
difficulty or expense when considered in relation to factors such as
the size of the business, its financial resources, and the nature
and structure of its operation.
A. 1. An employer other than a state agency may provide
reasonable unpaid break time each day to an employee who needs to
breast-feed or express breast milk for her child to maintain milk
supply and comfort. The break time, if possible, shall run
concurrently with any break time, paid or unpaid, already provided
to the employee. An employer is not required to provide break time
under this section if to do so would create an undue hardship on the
operations of the employer.
2. Every state agency shall allow an employee who is lactating
reasonable paid break time each day to use the designated lactation
room for the purpose of maintaining milk supply and comfort.
B. An employer may make a reasonable effort to provide a
private, secure, and sanitary room or other location in close
proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where an
employee can express her milk or breast-feed her child.
C. The Department of Health shall issue periodic reports on
breast-feeding rates, complaints received, and benefits reported by
both working breast-feeding mothers and employers.
D. As used in this section:
1. "Employer" means a person engaged in business who has one or
more employees, including the state and any political subdivision of
the state;
2. "Employee" means any person engaged in service to an
employer in the business of the employer;
3. "Reasonable" means any effort that would not impose an undue
hardship on the operation of the employer's business; and
4. "Undue hardship" means any action that requires significant
difficulty or expense when considered in relation to factors such as
the size of the business, its financial resources, and the nature
and structure of its operation.
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