Self-ID / EEO data — voluntary demographic info

Self-ID is the voluntary collection of demographic data — race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, disability status — used for federal EEO-1 reporting and other compliance reports. The platform collects it from individual workers (only the worker can answer for themselves) and aggregates anonymized totals for admin reports.

How a worker fills out Self-ID:
1. Profile → My Self-ID (or Workforce → My Pay → Self-ID tab)
2. Five fields, all optional:
• Race / Ethnicity (multi-select)
• Gender
• Veteran status (Protected veteran / Not protected / Decline)
• Disability status (Yes / No / Decline)
• Pronouns (free text, optional)
3. Save — values are stored on the worker's private workforceSelfId record

Privacy guarantees:
• Only the individual worker can read or edit their own Self-ID values
• Org admins can NEVER see individual worker Self-ID values, only aggregated counts (≥5 workers per bucket — under the threshold, the bucket shows as "—" to prevent re-identification)
• Even Turtini staff cannot read raw Self-ID data — it's protected at the rules level

Admin reports:
Workforce → Compliance → Self-ID Report:
• Total worker count
• Per-category breakdown (race/gender/veteran/disability) with counts
• Anything below the privacy threshold shows "—"
• Export to CSV for EEO-1 filing

EEO-1 filing:
For employers with 100+ employees (or 50+ federal contractors), the EEO-1 report is due annually. The platform's Self-ID Report exports in the standard EEOC structure — paste into the EEOC portal at year-end.

Why "voluntary":
Federal law (and most state laws) require demographic data to be collected only on a voluntary basis with a Decline option. Workers see "I prefer not to answer" alongside every option — and it's stored as such, not as a default.