A proposed FCC equal employment opportunity fine against a cable...
A proposed FCC equal employment opportunity fine against a cable operator shows it’s not just radio and TV stations that can’t limit job postings to websites, and must also take other endeavors under EEO rules, a broadcast attorney said Friday.…
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Thursday’s Media Bureau notice of apparent liability shows the agency “reiterating the position that it has taken with broadcasters” that “online recruiting and recruiting through the station’s own internal sources are not enough,” David Oxenford wrote on Davis Wright’s blog (http://xrl.us/bm3oao). “Recruiting efforts need to include other sources designed to reach all of the significant groups in the system’s area.” The law firm recommends pay-TV and broadcast clients give job notices to community groups, work with schools, use employment agencies and buy ads in a “widely read local newspaper (a relic, perhaps, of 2003 when these rules were first adopted) to achieve the required broad outreach to community groups expected by the FCC,” Oxenford said.