In our ongoing effort to provide a wide array of opportunities for employer representatives to connect on topical compliance issues and diversity and inclusion initiatives, we recently held another of our virtual employer roundtables, this one focusing on best practices regarding the solicitation of race, ethnicity, sex, and other demographic categories.
The February 10 roundtable was prompted in part by questions that we received from employers on whether there is a new “mandatory” self-identification form for soliciting race and ethnicity based on information that some third-party human resources information system (HRIS) vendors were circulating suggesting that the “Two or More Races” category had been replaced with a new “Balance of not Hispanic or Latino” category. To reiterate what we said previously in response, there has been no change to the race and ethnicity categories that employers must collect and report to the federal government, nor has there been any change to the federal standards that support these categories.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.