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OH HB488
Bill
Status
4/13/2010
Primary Sponsor
Ted Celeste
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AI Summary
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Expands sex discrimination protections in Ohio Revised Code Section 4112.01 to explicitly include lactation as a protected status alongside pregnancy and childbirth.
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Requires employers with four or more employees to provide lactating employees reasonable, unpaid time each day to express breast milk, with time to run concurrently with existing break periods where practicable.
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Mandates employers make reasonable efforts to provide a sanitary, private room or area near the work area (not a toilet stall) for lactating employees to express breast milk.
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Classifies violations of lactation accommodation requirements as unlawful discriminatory practices under Ohio civil rights law, allowing affected women to file complaints with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.
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Directs the Director of Development to provide employers with information and resources about accommodating lactating mothers in the workplace.
Legislative Description
To expand the prohibition against discrimination because of or on the basis of sex to prohibit discrimination because of or on the basis of lactation and to require employers to allow an employee to express breast milk while at work.
Lactating employees-prohibit discrimination against
Last Action
To Commerce & Labor
4/13/2010