Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Urges FCC to Collect EEO Data
The FCC shouldn’t move to relax equal employment opportunity reporting rules until it begins collecting employment data, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights wrote Chairman Ajit Pai, posted in docket 17-105 Thursday. The requirement for mid-term EEO reports…
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shouldn’t be loosened (see 1805010075) until the FCC “remedies its near 20-year failure to collect industry-wide employment statistics as required by law,” the group said. The agency suspended collection in 2001, and never resumed despite concluding such data collection was legal in 2004, the conference said. “Collecting employment data is central to the FCC’s obligation to ensure nondiscriminatory employment practices and to track the success of its policies." The media modernization effort is “a rush to deregulate without adequately considering how existing regulations serve the public interest and equity,” the letter said. The agency should implement “an automated, searchable, and uniform electronic database” and “adopt a transparent mechanism to trigger mid-term license review” to replace EEO reports the agency proposes to eliminate, it said.