Senate Amendment 5344


PAG LIN

     1  1    Amend House File 2531, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 46, after line 5 by inserting:
     1  4                          <DIVISION ___
     1  5                     WORKPLACE ACCOMODATIONS
     1  6    Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  91F.1  Short title.
     1  7    This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
     1  8 "Family Friendly Workplace Act".
     1  9    Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  91F.2  Definitions.
     1 10    1.  "Employer" means a person engaged in a business
     1 11 who has one or more employees and also includes the
     1 12 state of Iowa, a department or agency thereof, and any
     1 13 political subdivision of the state.
     1 14    2.  "Reasonable efforts" means any effort that would
     1 15 not impose an undue hardship on the operation of the
     1 16 employer's business.
     1 17    3.  "Undue hardship" means any action that requires
     1 18 significant difficulty, compromises the safety of other
     1 19 employees, requires temporary facility closure, or
     1 20 results in expenditures exceeding five hundred dollars,
     1 21 exclusive of the costs of additional labor or unpaid
     1 22 leave costs.
     1 23    Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  91F.3  Right to express
     1 24 breast milk in workplace == private location.
     1 25    1.  An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid
     1 26 break time or permit an employee to use paid break
     1 27 time, meal time, or both, each day, to allow the
     1 28 employee to express breast milk for the employee's
     1 29 nursing child for up to two years after the child's
     1 30 birth.
     1 31    2.  The employer shall make reasonable efforts
     1 32 to provide a place, other than a toilet stall, which
     1 33 is shielded from view and free from intrusion from
     1 34 coworkers and the public, that may be used by an
     1 35 employee to express breast milk in privacy.
     1 36    3.  An employer who makes reasonable efforts
     1 37 to accommodate an employee who chooses to express
     1 38 breast milk in the workplace shall be deemed to be in
     1 39 compliance with the requirements of this section.
     1 40    4.  The department of workforce development shall
     1 41 provide on its internet site information and links
     1 42 to other internet sites where employers can access
     1 43 information regarding methods to accommodate employees
     1 44 who express breast milk in the workplace.  The
     1 45 department shall consult with appropriate organizations
     1 46 or associations to determine the appropriate
     1 47 information and internet site links so as to provide
     1 48 employers with the most accurate and useful information
     1 49 available.
     1 50    Sec. ___.  Section 91.5, Code 2009, is amended to
     2  1 read as follows:
     2  2    91.5  Other duties == jurisdiction in general.
     2  3    The commissioner shall have jurisdiction and it
     2  4 shall be the commissioner's duty to supervise the
     2  5 enforcement of:
     2  6    1.  All laws relating to safety appliances
     2  7 and inspection thereof and health conditions in
     2  8 manufacturing and mercantile establishments, workshops,
     2  9 machine shops, other industrial concerns within the
     2 10 commissioner's jurisdiction and sanitation and shelter
     2 11 for railway employees.
     2 12    2.  All laws of the state relating to child labor.
     2 13    3.  All laws relating to employment agencies.
     2 14    4.  All laws relating to expressing breast milk in
     2 15 the workplace.
     2 16    4.  5.  Such other provisions of law as are now
     2 17 or shall hereafter be within the commissioner's
     2 18 jurisdiction.>
     2 19 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.


                                        
          PAM JOCHUM


                                        
          DARYL BEALL
          HF2531.2867 (4) 83
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