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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 26, § 604: Nursing in the workplace, 2009

An employer must give an employee break time to express breast milk for a nursing child, and must make reasonable efforts to provide a private non-bathroom space.

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Nursing in the workplace

An employer must give an employee break time to express breast milk for a nursing child, and must make reasonable efforts to provide a private non-bathroom space.

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§ 604Nursing in the workplaceProvision

An employer must give an employee break time to express breast milk for a nursing child, and must make reasonable efforts to provide a private non-bathroom space.

An employer, as defined in section 603, subsection 1, paragraph A, shall provide adequate unpaid break time or permit an employee to use paid break time or meal time each day to express breast milk for the employee's nursing child for up to 3 years following childbirth. The employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide a clean room or other location, other than a bathroom, where an employee may express breast milk in privacy. An employer may not discriminate in any way against an employee who chooses to express breast milk in the workplace. [RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §12 (COR).]
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