Lactation Accommodations

Southwest Care Center will provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate team members desiring to express breast milk for their child, in accordance with and to the extent required by applicable law. The break time, if possible and permitted by applicable law, must run concurrently with rest and meal periods already provided. If the break time cannot run concurrently with rest and meal periods already provided, the break time will be unpaid, subject to applicable law.

The Organization will make reasonable efforts to provide team members with the use of a room or location in close proximity to the team member's work area, other than a bathroom, to express milk in private. This location may be the team member's private office, if applicable. 

Team members should advise management if they need break time and an area for this purpose. Team members will not be discriminated against or retaliated against for exercising their rights under this policy.

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Team members may store breast milk in refrigerators provided form employee use only. There should be no use of patient related refrigeration. Such milk should be clearly labeled and removed daily and not stored ongoing in team member refrigerators to ensure that it is not discarded as part of scheduled cleaning processes.

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If a team member has questions or concerns about this policy, they should contact a member of the HR team or submit an incident report via the Compliatric Incident Reporting Portal (see link to right of screen).