EEO Data Collection Should Be Confidential, NAB Tells Saurer
Additional equal employment opportunity reporting requirements aren’t the best way to improve employment diversity in broadcasting, said NAB in a meeting Thursday with FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer and bureau staff, said an ex parte filing posted Monday in…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
docket 98-204 (see 2110010066). The agency could “more effectively” improve diversity “through initiatives designed to help boost broadcasting as an attractive career path for minority and women job seekers,” the filing said. If the FCC reinstates EEO data collection, it should do so on a confidential basis, to avoid “subjecting stations to unlawful and counterproductive pressure,” NAB said. It should also exclude companies that are already obligated to report similar information to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the filing said.