Connecticut meal and rest period law is located in Titles 31 and 46a of the General Statutes of Connecticut.

22-13. Employment of Minors in Agriculture.

No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed or be permitted to work in agriculture. No minor fourteen or fifteen years of age shall be employed in any agricultural occupation for more than six days a week, or for more than eight hours in any day or forty-eight hours in any week. If transportation is furnished to the farm or other place of employment, for any minor covered in sections 22-13 to 22-17, inclusive, return transportation to his home or pickup point shall be available at the close of each work day. Not less than thirty minutes shall be allowed for the meal period .

31-51ii. Meal periods. Exemptions. Regulations.

(a) No person shall be required to work for seven and one-half or more consecutive hours without a period of at least thirty consecutive minutes for a meal. Such period shall be given at some time after the first two hours of work and before the last two hours.

(b) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to alter or impair the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement in effect on July 1, 1990.

(c) The Labor Commissioner shall exempt any employer from the requirements of this section if he finds that (1) requiring compliance would be adverse to public safety, (2) the duties of a position may only be performed by one employee, (3) the employer employs less than five employees on a shift at a single place of business provided the exemption shall only apply to the employees on such shift or (4) the continuous nature of an employer's operations, such as chemical production or research experiments, requires that employees be available to respond to urgent or unusual conditions at all times and such employees are compensated for break and meal periods. The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to establish the procedures and requirements for the granting of such exemptions.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any professional employee certified by the State Board of Education and employed by a local or regional board of education of any town or regional school district to work directly with children.

(e) The provisions of this section shall not prevent any employer and employee from entering into a written agreement providing for a different schedule of meal periods than the schedule required by subsection (a) of this section.

(f) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any employer who provides thirty or more total minutes of paid rest or meal periods to employees within each seven and one-half hour work period.

(g) Any employer who violates the provisions of this section may be subject to civil penalties in accordance with section 31-69a.

46a-64. Discriminatory public accommodations practices prohibited. Penalty.

(a) It shall be a discriminatory practice in violation of this section:

(1) To deny any person within the jurisdiction of this state full and equal accommodations in any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, age, lawful source of income, mental retardation, mental disability or physical disability, including, but not limited to, blindness or deafness of the applicant, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons;

(2) to discriminate, segregate or separate on account of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, age, lawful source of income, mental retardation, mental disability, learning disability or physical disability, including, but not limited to, blindness or deafness;

(3) for a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement to restrict or limit the right of a mother to breast-feed her child;

(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.

31-40w. Breastfeeding rights - Discrimination prohibited.

(a) Any employee may, at her discretion, express breast milk or breastfeed on site at her workplace during her meal or break period.

(b) An employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location, in close proximity to the work area, other than a toilet stall, where the employee can express her milk in private.

(c) An employer shall not discriminate against, discipline or take any adverse employment action against any employee because such employee has elected to exercise her rights under subsection (a) of this section.

(d) As used in this section, "employer" means a person engaged in business who has one or more employees, including the state and any political subdivision of the state; "employee" means any person engaged in service to an employer in the business of the employer; "reasonable efforts" means any effort that would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer's business; and "undue hardship" means any action that requires significant difficulty or expense when considered in relation to factors such as the size of the business, its financial resources and the nature and structure of its operation.

53-34b. Breastfeeding.

No person may restrict or limit the right of a mother to breast-feed her child.