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Needham committee edits human-rights statement to add age and citizenship; plans to post and seek Select Board endorsement
Summary
The committee revised a draft Human Rights statement to include age and citizenship as protected categories, agreed to post the statement on its webpage and to ask the Select Board for formal endorsement; members also raised that the town complaint form needs to be linked and accessible.
The Needham Human Rights Committee agreed at its April meeting to add age and citizenship to the town statement of protected classes and to publish the revised statement on the committee’s web page while pursuing formal endorsement by the Select Board.
Committee members said the town’s existing employment EEO statement already lists a broad set of protected categories used in job postings and suggested borrowing that language rather…
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