Chairman Pai Statement on Proposal to Improve Enforcement of EEO Rules

On July 3, 1968, the Federal Communications Commission first concluded that equal opportunity in employment was essential to the public interest, and committed to ensuring that the national policy against discrimination in hiring applied to broadcast licensees. To mark the 50th anniversary of this decision and to improve the Commission’s enforcement of its equal employment opportunity (EEO) rules, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shared with his colleagues a proposal to shift agency staff responsible for enforcing the FCC’s EEO rules from the Media Bureau to the Enforcement Bureau. Earlier in 2018, numerous civil rights organizations, including the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, NAACP, National Urban League, LULAC, and Rainbow PUSH Coalition, recommended that the Commission take this step so that the Commission’s EEO rules could be enforced more effectively.