The self-identification forms used by many employers in response to government demographic data reporting requirements typically contain a prominent disclosure that personal identifying data such as race, ethnicity, and sex will be kept confidential subject to certain conditions. For many years, we have made available to our employers a “model self-ID template” that contains a suggested confidentiality disclaimer. We are now offering an updated self-identification form with revised confidentiality disclaimer language clarifying that an employee’s self-identification response may be disclosed to the public, but only in an aggregate format that maintains the individual’s anonymity.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.