Review of the Commission’s Broadcast and Cable Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and Policies; Delete, Delete, Delete
Key claim: The Federal Communications Commission removed broadcast and cable equal employment opportunity rules to comply with a federal appeals court decision striking them down.
Abstract
(Rule · Federal Communications Commission) In this document, the Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopts an Order that removes a section of the Commission’s Rules and references to that section to conform the Commission’s Rules to the decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in National Religious Broadcasters v. FCC.
Why this matters
For broadcast and cable employers, employees, and job applicants, this action aligns the FCC’s written regulations with the court’s prior vacatur of the affected EEO provisions. Because those provisions had already been vacated, the removal itself does not newly change enforceable obligations and should not be read as eliminating all employment nondiscrimination protections in these industries.