TITLE XXIII
LABOR

CHAPTER 275
PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION

Policies Relating to Nursing Mothers

Section 275:81


[RSA 275:81 effective July 1, 2025.]
    275:81 Reasonable Break Period. –
I. Every employer shall provide reasonable break periods to employees who need to express milk for a child for a period of one year from the date of birth of the child. Nothing in this section shall preclude an employer from negotiating with an employee reasonable break periods to express milk that are different from the requirements in this subdivision.
II. Nothing under this subdivision shall preclude an employee from taking a reasonable break period contemporaneously with break or meal periods already provided to the employee by the employer.
III. An employer shall not require an employee to make up time related to use of unpaid reasonable break periods.

Source. 2023, 191:20, eff. July 1, 2025.