Bulletin Categories: HR/Employment Law

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

On April 23, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a second draft of a model form, the Disclosure Template, that a group health plan participant (or his or her...

Another FCC reporting requirement may also be on its way out.  Comments are due May 21, 2018, on the Commission’s Noticed of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) that would eliminate FCC Form 397,...

Ohio’s budding medical marijuana industry is scheduled to bloom on September 8, 2018. At that time, registered medical marijuana patients with a physician recommendation will be able to purchase Ohio-grown...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently announced a pilot program to encourage employers to self-report their wage-hour violations. The “Payroll Audit Independent Determination” (PAID) program...

The FCC has released its first round of EEO audit letters of 2018 to randomly selected radio and television station licensees.  While broadcasters have come to expect routine EEO compliance...

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,...

In December 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals joined the Second, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits in rejecting the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) six-part test for determining whether interns...

Earlier this month, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) articulated a new standard for evaluating when a facially neutral workplace policy or rule would potentially interfere with rights protected by...

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...