EEO Rules Should Be Updated, Says Oxenford
The FCC should revisit its 2003 Equal Employment Opportunity Order that requires companies to use local newspapers to widely circulate job openings, said Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford in a blog post. “It no doubt can be proven that,…
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in today’s world, the circulation of online job sites is significantly greater than that of almost any newspaper.” Oxenford said. The issue was highlighted by an $11,000 EEO forfeiture handed down by the commission earlier this week (see 1607270063), Oxenford said. Revisiting the matter is likely to come up in appeals of decisions like that recent forfeiture, or in response to recent criticisms of the FCC's stance by Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, Oxenford said.