Official:Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled, "Regulation Of Businesses, Trades And Professions," to clarify that it is discrimination based on sex and therefore an unlawful business practice for any employer to fail to accommodate an individual's reasonable need to express breast milk; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Oh
Introduced: December 5, 2013
Signed: June 19, 2014
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill amends Philadelphia's laws to require employers to provide a private space for employees to express breast milk and take unpaid breaks to do so.
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