Health Care Adds New law new protections for nursing mothers

The recent health care reform law as the law on protection of patient care is accessible and known, contained a provision that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an employer to require an Adequate time break an employee for the supply of breast milk Express care for their child for one year after the birth of the child in each of these workers need to pump out the milk. The law also requires that employers find a place to offer than a bath to bring the employee to expressMilk. Some employers already observed by state law dealing with nursing mothers to work, what are called rooms to nursing mothers in breastfeeding, breast milk expression during work hours must be used for coverage.

This amendment to the FLSA provides that the employer is not required to obtain a range of work time per employee spent compensate expressed breast milk. However, this article may cause practical problems for employers.Employers must decide whether and how to take advantage of this provision to keep pace with compliance, records of hours worked by employees.

The new amendment also states that if compliance with this new law would impose unreasonable for employers with fewer than 50 employees, the employer must satisfy is not the law. However, since this provision allows an exception from the law, small employers must expect that if the Department of Labor shall adopt rulesthe interpretation of this law is interpreted this exception very narrowly.

This change in recent legislation for health care is a public health objective of the United States Centers for Disease Control to increase the percentage of mothers who children in early postpartum period to 75 percent breast-feed by 2010. promoted to health professionals and health authorities need to improve breastfeeding for infant health. These health experts believe thatMothers and children benefit from breast milk. Breast milk contains antibodies to protect babies from bacteria and viruses. Breastfed children have fewer ear infections, respiratory infections, urinary tract infections and diarrhea are rare. Children who are exclusively breastfed are less likely to health care visits, prescriptions and hospital admissions requiring a lower total cost of medical care when breastfed babies who have never been compared.

It is believed thatNursing mothers, has received long-term health effects of prevention, including an earlier return to pre-pregnancy weight and a reduced risk of breast cancer in pre-menopause and osteoporosis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 70 percent of mothers start breastfeeding immediately after birth, but less than 20 percent of mothers who breastfeed exclusively are the same six months later.

If this new law came into force at least 24 states,including, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, had a sort of state law that provides protection for breastfeeding mothers who need to breastfeed to bring the milk and at work to express. The amendments establish breastfeeding in the health sector in the Federal Republic of law on these state law byprovided that each state must protect the right of federal priorities in the face of federal law. Must employers in states with laws that are breast-feeding the new federal requirement to ensure that they comply with state law. All employers should review their policies and practices relating to nursing mothers to ensure that they are in compliance with federal law or were, whichever is applicable.