S. 1658 · 117th Congress
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Jeff Merkley
- Introduced
- 2021-05-17
- Latest action
- 2021-05-27 · Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Murray with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Summary
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act or the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act
This bill expands workplace protections for employees with a need to express breast milk. Specifically, it expands the requirement that employers provide certain accommodations for such an employee to cover salaried employees and other types of workers not covered under existing law. Further, time spent to express breast milk must be considered hours worked if the employee is also working.