Awesome that you have a daycare on site and you can just pop in to feed him, yay
There's a
code of employment practice on infant feeding on the DOL website which should answer your questions about legal entitlements to breaks and things.
It is very open ended:
 DOL wrote:
Breaks
17. An employer is required to provide appropriate breastfeeding breaks for an employee who wishes to breastfeed during a work period, so far as it is reasonable and practicable to do so in the circumstances.
18. The appropriate length, timing and frequency of breaks will differ for each employee due to the nature of breastfeeding, the needs and age of an infant, whether the employee is solely expressing milk, and the operational environment the employee works in.
19. An appropriate break is likely to be long enough to provide an employee time to breastfeed or express milk.
20. The appropriate number of breaks is likely to be enough to allow an infant to breastfeed, or for the employee to express milk, an appropriate number of times having regard to the length of the work period.
21. Breastfeeding breaks are in addition to usual rest and meal breaks unless parties agree otherwise.
22. Breastfeeding breaks are paid only if an employer and employee agree.
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Negotiating a breastfeeding arrangement
32. Establishing arrangements for breastfeeding in the workplace is a matter for an employer and employee to negotiate.
33. What is reasonable and practicable might change as circumstances change. It is important that employers and employees communicate regularly, re-evaluate their arrangement when either party’s needs change, and monitor the impact of the arrangement on the workplace, the employee and other staff. Any changes to the arrangement should be agreed between parties to the agreement.
34. Some things which the employer and employee might need to agree to, and renegotiate, from time to time are:
* the length, timing and frequency of breastfeeding breaks
* the location in which these breaks will be taken
* whether the breaks will be paid or unpaid (the breaks are paid only if the employee and employer agree that they are paid)
* whether another staff member will need to cover the employee’s work duties during her breastfeeding break
* whether start and finish times can be shifted to accommodate breastfeeding requirements
* the process to change the arrangement.
35. Breastfeeding breaks do not have to be formalised by a variation to an employment agreement, but a written agreement will help to set out a mutual understanding of the arrangement and the obligations and expectations of both parties. A written agreement also provides a clear basis to negotiate change.
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