San Francisco employers seeking to show their compliance with a San Francisco law requiring employers to provide unpaid break time and a lactation location for employees to express breast milk should include this model policy statement in their handbook.
A San Francisco employer may use this form when an employee requests a lactation accommodation pursuant to the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance.
As mandated by the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, covered employers should use the San Francisco, California, Lactation Accommodation Policy to to establish guidelines promoting a work environment that supports breastfeeding; to establish that employees have a right to request lactation accommodation; and to comply with San Francisco's Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance.