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Tennessee Required Some State Employees To Complete ‘Equity’ Assignment

The state's "diversity" reading materials say employees may need space to be "disengaged" at work.

Mairead Elordi
Tennessee Required Some State Employees To Complete ‘Equity’ Assignment
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A previous version of this article stated that Tennessee’s Human Resource Department required state employees to complete the assignment. It has been corrected to note the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration’s human resource department required some employees to complete the assignment.

Tennessee required some state employees to complete an assignment on “diversity and equity” as part of their performance reviews, internal documents from the Department of Finance and Administration human resources office show.

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