Your Right to Breastfeed in California

CALIFORNIA PROTECTS THE RIGHT TO BREASTFEED

California protects a woman’s right to express breastmilk in the workplace: "Every employer... shall provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk" ... and ... "to provide the employee with the use of a room or other location, other than a toilet stall... for the employee to express milk in private."
CA Labor Code Section 1 Chapter 3.8, Section 1030-1031

California protects a woman’s right to breastfeed her baby in public: "a mother may breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, except the private home or residence of another, where the mother and the child are otherwise authorized to be present."
CA Civil Code 43.3

For this and more laws protecting breastfeeding: www.wicworks.ca.gov/breastfeeding/Legislation/BFLaws.html

upcoming meetings

PLEASE JOIN US! We meet on the first Thursday of each month from 9-10:30a.m. at the Health Care Agency
2240 E. Gonzales Rd. Ste. 200
Oxnard CA 93036
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events

The Natural Laws of Breastfeeding: New Paradigms and Tools
Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC
September 19, 2008

3rd Annual Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Awards
August 2008