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City's DEI audit: consultant finds workforce disparities, recommends vendor data and community survey
Summary
A $50,000 state grant funded an equity audit that found Black and Asian employees underrepresented in Framingham's workforce relative to the regional labor market and recommended steps to monitor vendor diversity and conduct a community needs survey.
Jesse Edwards, Framingham's diversity, equity and inclusion officer, told the council that a DEI audit funded by a $50,000 Commonwealth grant is complete and that the city retained the Racial Equity Group to conduct the review.
Bert Guess (presented as the consultant for Racial Equity Group) summarized the audit findings and recommendations. The audit invited 722 people to participate (including 644 employees, 67 board/committee members and 11 elected officials), received 399 responses and validated 233 complete responses for analysis. Using standard EEO-4 benchmarking and Census-derived labor-market measures across Middlesex, Norfolk and Worcester counties, the…
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