- Private-sector employers must adapt within their facilities or workplace areas that are suitable, comfortable, hygienic, and accessible so that breastfeeding women can breastfeed, extract, store, and preserve breast milk.
- They must also ensure the adequate preservation of breast milk during the working day.
- Employers must authorize breast milk extraction or breastfeeding sessions for all mothers in a breastfeeding period, up to 12 months after childbirth.
- Within a 6-hour workday, the mother is entitled to up to 20 minutes every 2 hours exclusively for breastfeeding or extraction.
- These breaks may not be accumulated or exchanged for early departure.
- Under no circumstances will the time granted for milk extraction or breastfeeding be counted as part of the reduced workday established by law, deducted from vacation time, or be a reason for reducing the mother’s salary.
- Private-sector employers are obligated to conduct at least once a year internal activities promoting breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and healthy nutrition, through meetings, demonstrations, workshops, fairs, campaigns, and educational materials, among others.
- Within 90 days, the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Public Health shall issue the official guidelines for the adaptation, use, and registration of breastfeeding support rooms.
Adaptation of Breastfeeding Support Rooms
Through Interministerial Agreement No. 003 between the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Health (April 23, 2019), regulations were issued for the adaptation and use of breastfeeding support rooms by natural or legal persons, de facto partnerships, and any entity acting as an employer with at least one worker in a breastfeeding period.
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