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FCC finds six broadcasters apparently liable for violations of Equal Employment Opportunity Rule

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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January 30 2009

In late December 2008, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released a series of six Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture against broadcasters asserting violations of the FCC’s Equal Employment Opportunity rule (“EEO rule”

FCC admonishes station group owner for failing to widely recruit under Commission’s EEO rules

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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March 31 2008

As the result of a random EEO audit, the FCC admonished a publicly traded broadcast station group owner for failing to recruit “widely” for every full-time vacancy

FCC fines Florida broadcaster $25,000 for repeated failure to maintain full-time personnel and make available a complete public inspection file at brokered station

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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November 18 2010

In September 2009, following a complaint, agents from the Enforcement Bureau’s Tampa Field Office conducted an inspection of a Florida AM station

FCC fines Pennsylvania broadcaster $10,000 for repeated failure to employ adequate personnel

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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December 16 2010

In keeping with lasts month's "meaningful management and staff presence" Notice of Apparent Liability ("NAL"), the FCC again upwardly adjusted a fine, totaling $10,000, against a Pennsylvania broadcaster for repeated failure to maintain at least one management level and one staff level employee at the main studio during regular business hours as required by Section 73.1125 of the FCC's Rules

New federal regulation requires workers, including the media, to wear safety vests while on highways

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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October 10 2008

Effective November 24, 2008, new requirements set forth by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration mandate that all workers, including media personnel, wear ‘high-visibility safety clothing' while covering incidents on public highways

Don't jack Jill's pages

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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March 30 2011

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that a company's alleged use of an employee's Facebook and Twitter pages without her permission to post marketing messages that looked like they were written by the employee may be liable under the Illinois Right to Publicity Act and the Lanham Act for false endorsement

Making it work: a broadcaster’s guide to the FCC’s equal employment opportunity rules and policies

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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May 19 2011

June 1, 2011 marks the beginning of a four-year cycle during which all commercial and noncommercial radio and television stations throughout the United States will come under special scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), as it considers whether to renew each station's license to broadcast

EEO in 2008 and forward: a legal guide to the FCC’s EEO rule and policies for broadcasters

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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October 30 2008

On November 20, 2002, the FCC released a Second Report and Order and Third Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Second R&O”) in which it adopted new equal employment opportunity rules and policies for broadcasters and for multi-channel video programming distributors (the “EEO Rule”

Dog gone! And their twitter followers too?

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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January 3 2012

PhoneDog LLC filed a lawsuit last July against a now former employee, Noah Kravitz

Drawing the line online: employers’ rights to employees’ social media accounts

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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USA
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October 16 2012

With the unprecedented popularity of social media, employees have increasingly used LinkedIn and other online forums to network for business and social purposes

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