What are the changes to Law 427-2000?

A new Article 10 was added to Act 427-2000 to prohibit the use of the breastfeeding period as a basis for:

• giving unfavorable evaluations
• taking adverse or detrimental actions,
• efficiency criteria in performance reviews
• justifying disciplinary actions
• discrimination

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In addition, Article 10 of Act 427-2000 now includes a non-exhaustive list of actions that may be considered "detrimental." Among these are:

• reduction of work hours
• job reclassification
• shift changes
• requiring the employee to make up the time used for breastfeeding or expressing breast milk

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Finally, Article 11 was added to Law 427-2000, requiring that the law be interpreted in the manner most favorable to the nursing mother.

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