# Break Time for Nursing Mothers — US federal employment law thresholds by employee count

For Break Time for Nursing Mothers, employee threshold is 1; requirement is you to provide rest breaks and accommodations (in a location other than a bathroom) for nursing mothers to express breast milk for up to 1 year after the child’s birth; counting note is Employers with fewer than 50 employees may be exempt if they can demonstrate an undue hardship, verified against its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Law:** Break Time for Nursing Mothers
- **Full name:** Break Time for Nursing Mothers
- **Employee threshold:** 1
- **Requirement:** you to provide rest breaks and accommodations (in a location other than a bathroom) for nursing mothers to express breast milk for up to 1 year after the child’s birth
- **Counting note:** Employers with fewer than 50 employees may be exempt if they can demonstrate an undue hardship

## What the source says

> Break Time for Nursing Mothers <https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/73-flsa-break-time-nursing-mothers> Break Time for Nursing Mothers is a sub-section to the ACA that requires you to provide rest breaks and accommodations (in a location other than a bathroom) for nursing mothers to express breast milk for up to 1 year after the child’s birth.

## Source

- https://stratus.hr/resources/federal-law-breakdown-how-many-employees

Last verified: 2026-08-04. Review by: 2027-08-04.
Part of [US federal employment law thresholds by employee count](https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/).