MMTC Wants Some Conditions on Draft EEO Rule
An FCC draft on allowing online-only job recruitment to satisfy equal employment opportunity requirements (see 1704070075) is generally endorsed by the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, with a few conditions, MMTC told an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn in…
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a call Tuesday, according to an FCC filing posted Thursday in docket 16-410. Internet recruitment doesn’t remove the need for networking, MMTC said. “Licensees should not be allowed to fulfill their EEO obligations by simply posting openings online and doing no other recruitment,” the filing said. “Internet recruitment should be viewed as a supplement to, but not a substitute for, the maintenance of recruitment relationships with local sources, including educational institutions as well as job training programs.” The FCC also should take up numerous EEO policy issues that have been pending since 2004, MMTC said. “April 24, 2017 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the filing of the United Church of Christ’s Petition for Rulemaking to establish what became the EEO Rule,” MMTC said. “The Commission should mark this occasion by pledging to complete the Docket 98-204 proceeding by the close of 2017, thereby improving EEO enforcement by targeting discriminators, putting an end to the punishing of non-discriminating broadcasters who recruit primarily by word of mouth but from highly diverse workforces, and embracing EEO best practices.”