Bulletin Categories: HR/Employment Law

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...

In a blog post released February 20, Commissioner Michael O’Rielly publicly invited the FCC to consider modernizing its EEO rules to take account of the near-ubiquity of the Internet as...

Day-to-day broadcast operations are subject to a wide variety of FCC regulations, each of which presents an opportunity for an operational slip-up that may result in FCC enforcement action.  In...

Although the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) have agreed on standards for wellness programs, and Congress seemed to have blessed those standards when it authorized...

Effective January 1, 2015, Ohio’s minimum wage will increase to $8.10 an hour for non-tipped employees, and $4.05 for tipped employees. The increase applies to employers with more than $297,000 in...

Perhaps as many as 200,000 Ohio employers are eligible to participate in a $420 million refund program, but they must apply for a refund by Sept. 22. Eligible employers have...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued its first enforcement guidance on pregnancy discrimination since 1983.  The new guidance was approved by a 3-to-2 vote of commissioners.   The dissenting...

On March 13, 2014, President Barack Obama signed a presidential memorandum directing the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to “propose revisions to modernize and streamline the existing overtime regulations” related...

The FCC recently fined two broadcasters $20,000 each for violations of the Commission’s EEO rules. In one instance, the Commission fined a television broadcaster in large part for failing to...