{"id":3423,"date":"2018-05-11T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:26:35","slug":"how-are-employers-obligated-to-accommodate-employees-who-are-also-nursing-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/how-are-employers-obligated-to-accommodate-employees-who-are-also-nursing-mothers.html","title":{"rendered":"How Are Employer\u2019s Obligated to Accommodate Employees Who Are Also Nursing Mothers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 8, 2018, the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (\u201cNJLAD\u201d) was amended to include breastfeeding as a protected category. Under the amended law, employers must provide nursing mothers with reasonable breaks during the work day and a suitable private location close to the employee\u2019s work area to express milk for her infant child. The only exception to this requirement to accommodate is when doing so would place an undue hardship on the employer\u2019s business. When considering whether or not an undue hardship exists, the court will look to the following factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The overall size of the employer\u2019s business with respect to the number of employees, number and type of facilities, and size of the budget;<\/li>\n<li>The type of the employer\u2019s operations, including the composition and structure of the workplace;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/how-are-employers-obligated-to-accommodate-employees-who-are-also-nursing-mothers.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading How Are Employer\u2019s Obligated to Accommodate Employees Who Are Also Nursing Mothers?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 8, 2018, the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (\u201cNJLAD\u201d) was amended to include breastfeeding as a protected category. Under the amended law, employers must provide nursing mothers with reasonable breaks during the work day and a suitable private location close to the employee\u2019s work area to express milk for her infant child. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247,291],"tags":[],"coauthors":[296],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights","category-gingeleskie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Are Employer\u2019s Obligated to Accommodate Employees Who Are Also Nursing Mothers? &#8212; May 11, 2018 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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