ANNUAL EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY REPORT
4-K Radio, Inc. d.b.a. KOZE AM-FM, Lewiston Idaho
It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability in all personnel actions including recruitment, evaluation, selection, promotion, compensation, training and termination.
It is also our policy to promote the realization of equal employment opportunity through a positive, continuing program of specific practices designed to ensure the full realization of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national origin or sex.
KOZE
AM-FM is dedicated to providing broad outreach regarding job vacancies, and we
seek the help of local organizations in referring qualified applicants.
Organizations that wish to receive information about vacancies at the station
should contact Mike Ripley, General Manager by calling (208) 743-2502 and/or
writing to: KOZE Radio, PO Box 936 Lewiston, ID 83501 and/or sending an e-mail
message to mikeripley@koze.com.
II.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
Mike
Ripley, President / General Manager will be responsible for the administration
and implementation of our Equal Employment Opportunity Program. It will also be
the responsibility of all persons making employment decisions with respect to
recruitment, evaluation, selection, promotion, compensation, training and
termination of employees to ensure that our policy and program is adhered to
and that no person is discriminated against in employment because of race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability.
III. INTERNAL
RECORD KEEPING Ð POSITIONS FILLED
In compliance with the new
EEO rules, effective 3/10/03, KOZE-AM/FM has publicized job vacancies for all
of its stations through a combination of some or all of the following: Lewiston Morning Tribune, Lewiston Job
Service, Lewis-Clark State College, University of Idaho, Washington State
University, Walla Walla Community College, Nez Perce Tribal Employment Agency,
Idaho State Broadcasters Association Job Bank Website and the KOZE.com station
website.
The following position was filled
on KOZE-FM during the reporting period of June 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007:
KOZE-FM
Full Time On-Air Announcer position
Date Positions Opened Ð February 16, 2007
Date Positions Filed Ð March 2, 2007
To fill this vacancy the station utilized the
following recruitment sources and (#) of referrals from each source:
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Lewiston Job Service (0)
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Idaho State Broadcasters
Internet Job Bank (4)
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All Access.com Website
(55)
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Lewis-Clark State
College (0)
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Nez Perce Tribal
Employment Agency (0)
¤
KOZE.com station
website. (3)
¤
KOZE On Air Advertisements
(6)
A total of 67 applicants and 9 were interviewed.
Referral sources for the candidates interviewed were:
1.
All Access (3)
2.
ISBA (2)
3.
KOZE On Air
Advertisements (4)
Candidate hired was referred by the KOZE On-Air
Advertisements/In House Referral.
IV. SUPPLEMENTAL
RECRUITMENT MEASURES
KOZE
Radio will continue to strive to update, refine, and expand its recruitment
sources through further efforts in the months and years ahead and intends to
use the improved lists for virtually all job openings.
V. LONG TERM
RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
In
addition to the Supplemental Recruitment obligations listed above, KOZE Radio
is committed to performing at least two of the long-term EEO recruitments set
forth in the FCCÕs EEO rules within a two-year period. From June 1, 2004
through May 31, 2005, KOZE Radio participated in the following long-term
recruitment initiatives: