Congratulations on the new addition to your family! In recognition of the natural, beneficial source of nutrition and healthy start that breastfeeding provides for an infant, PG&E offers you a supportive environment to enable you to express milk during work hours.
By law, your supervisor is required to provide you a reasonable amount of time for milk expression. Nursing employees should limit business disruptions by taking milk expression breaks using normal breaks when possible or other times as agreed upon with the supervisor. Any hours outside of normal breaks shall be paid time. For more information, please review the PG&E’s Mothers’ Rooms Standard.
If you choose to breastfeed your child, you may take advantage of the many mothers’ rooms located throughout the PG&E territory. Please take a chance to read the mothers' room etiquette prior to use. PG&E provides a multi-user, hospital-grade Ameda Elite breast pump in each of its designated mothers’ rooms to assist breastfeeding employees with milk expression during work hours. It is the employee’s responsibility to bring her own pump attachment parts. Employees who use this breast pump must complete this waiver form and email it to Wellness prior to use.
If there isn’t a designated mothers’ room at your work location, please contact your supervisor in advance of your return to work and let him or her know that a space is needed so appropriate accommodations can be made. If available, you may also choose to express milk in your own private office.
For more information, contact Wellness.
Click here for information about how you get a free breast pump through the Health Account Plan (HAP), as well as information on the company-provided pump in designated mothers' rooms.
If you need help finding child care in your neighborhood, PG&E's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers resources to help you.
If you work in the downtown San Francisco area, consider PG&E's Children's Center for child care.