IL SB0212

Amends the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act to require employers to compensate employees at their regular rate of pay during break time used to express breast milk

Prohibits employers from requiring employees to use paid leave during nursing breaks or reducing compensation in any other manner during break time

Applies to employees who need to express milk for a nursing infant child for one year after the child's birth

Break time for expressing milk may run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee

Employers must provide paid reasonable break time unless doing so would create an undue hardship as defined by the Illinois Human Rights Act