FCC, Employer Liability Issues

White House Takes Aim at Inefficient Business Practices Through “Time Is Money” Initiative: 5 Things Employers Should Do

Fisher Phillips on 8/15/2024

The Biden Administration wants to crack down on corporate practices that it believes waste consumers’ time and money through excessive paperwork, long wait times, and other aggravations – and you’ll want to take note so you...more

FCC Reinstates Collection of Broadcast Employment Data on Form 395-B

Lerman Senter PLLC on 2/26/2024

After a hiatus of more than 20 years, the FCC will again require radio and television broadcasters to submit information about the race, ethnicity, and gender of their employees. The information, to be filed on FCC Form...more

This Week At The Ninth: Robocalls and Retaliation

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 10/24/2022

This week, the Court addresses the constitutionality of a nearly $1 billion statutory damages award under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and revives a California state law whistleblower claim. The Court...more

Use of Signal Jammer to Prevent Employees from Using their Phones at Work Results in FCC Fine

Smith Gambrell Russell on 2/10/2022

While the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) previously upheld an employer policy that prohibited employee phone use at work for safety and security reasons, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) recently upheld...more

Overview of President Biden’s Non-Compete Agreement Executive Order

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/21/2021

On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Order, breathtaking in scope, asserts as a key goal the desire to improve the lives of consumers through...more

Liability in the Telehealth Era

White and Williams LLP on 6/19/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust upon the healthcare industry countless profound and likely permanent changes, not the least of which is in telehealth. Over the next several months, White and Williams will publish a series of...more

E-911: New Proposed Federal Regulations Would Require Workplace Telephone Systems be Direct Dialing

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/10/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: The FCC has proposed new rules that would require employers to have compliant phones systems for 911 direct dialing....more

Workplace 911: Employer Telephone Systems May Need to be Revamped to Meet New and Pending Rules

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/4/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: New state and federal laws and rules require employers to have compliant phones systems for 911 direct dialing and E-911....more

2018 and its first EEO Audit

Womble Bond Dickinson on 4/12/2018

New Procedures: Old Problems – Don’t get caught off guard! On February 26, the Media Bureau issued its first Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) audit of 2018 to randomly selected radio and television stations. There are...more

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/17/2018

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

Sixth Circuit Prints Out Victory for Recipients of Fax-Blasting

Butler Snow LLP on 8/20/2014

An unsolicited fax comes into your business, but via your computer’s network, not on an old-fashioned fax machine. Nothing prints out on paper, but someone still has to deal with the unwanted advertisement. What’s been...more

MVPD Annual EEO Program Reports and SIS Responses Due Sept. 30, 2014

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/28/2014

The FCC’s equal employment opportunity (“EEO”) rules for multi-channel video program distributors (“MVPD”) require MVPD employment units with six or more full-time employees to file an Annual EEO Program Report, FCC Form...more

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