Does My Company Have to Provide Employees With Breastfeeding Breaks?

On June 30, 2017, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee signed the city’s new Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance. The ordinance will take effect January 1, 2018, and imposes lactation accommodation requirements that go beyond those that federal and California law currently impose.

E-Verify, the voluntary electronic employment verification system operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has been at the center of efforts to improve the employment eligibility verification system and enhance worksite enforcement efforts. In 1996, Congress introduced the Basic Pilot Program, the predecessor to the current E-Verify, as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Current authorization and funding for E-Verify is set to expire on November 1, 2008. On July 31, the House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 6633) that would extend E-Verify for five years.

Recent months have seen the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) take efforts to regulate employer activity in new and often unprecedented ways. Two of the NLRB’s early efforts in this regard were the attempt through rulemaking to require employers to post a notice advising employees of their right to organize and the issuance of rules that would speed up the union election process.