MSU is required to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk each time the employee has a need to pump at work, for one year after the child’s birth.
As with other breaks under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the nursing employee must be completely relieved from duty, or the time spent pumping must be counted as hours worked for the purposes of minimum wage and overtime requirements.
For additional information concerning break time for nursing mothers, please review the following University policy: https://www.policies.msstate.edu/sites/www.policies.msstate.edu/files/60227.pdf.
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