Some business entities subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should take notice that the agency is asking for public comments on whether to revive an annual reporting form that summarizes the sex and race/ethnicity characteristics of the company’s workforce by job group, similar in many ways to the EEO-1 reporting requirement.
The FCC’s “annual employment report” was discontinued in 2001 after federal courts invalidated portions of the FCC’s regulations, and amid concerns regarding confidentiality of reported data. The agency is now seeking public comments to “refresh the existing record” as it considers whether to resume this data collection for covered broadcasters and, if so, whether any modifications are necessary or even permissible under existing law.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.