Bulletin Categories: EEO

The Broadcast Mid-Term EEO Report (FCC Form 397) may soon be a thing of the past.  The FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) at its February 22, 2018,...

The FCC’s random Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) audits are not just busy work!  They can sometimes lead to fines for broadcasters, and that’s exactly what happened recently as the Commission...

On August 29, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) immediately halted the EEOC’s revisions to the EEO-1 form that were to take effect in March 2018. The revisions...

Ohio broadcast stations—both radio and television—with five or more full-time employees must place their annual EEO Public File Report in their public inspection file and post it to their website...

The FCC’s EEO rules have been in effect for more than a decade, and they require broadcasters to file certain periodic reports with the Commission, including FCC Form 396 (the...

Late Friday afternoon, April 21, the FCC released a Declaratory Ruling that may result in greater efficiencies for stations recruiting for full-time job vacancies: Internet-only recruitment will—when certain conditions are...

As broadcasters are well aware, the FCC’s EEO rules require stations with at least five full-time employees to engage in widespread recruitment for all full-time vacancies.  Such recruitment must be...

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself.” ~ William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), retaliation is...

EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORTS DUE JUNE 1, FOR OHIO RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS Each radio and television station in Ohio with five or more full-time employees must compile and place...

Ohio radio stations and television stations with five or more full-time employees must place their annual EEO Public File Report in their public inspection file and post it to their...