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Pre-employment questionnaires banned from October 2010!

Advice Now Web 0033 Op Until they make you a job offer, it will be against the law for an employer to ask you anything about your health unless they’re doing it for one the following (positive!) reasons:

to find out whether you need any 'reasonable adjustments' to make the recruitment process fairer for you.
to check that you’d actually be able to do the job once 'reasonable adjustments' were made.
to find out if you have a disability if that would help you to do the job better (for example, organisations providing services to disabled people often prefer to employ people who have experience of a disability)
to offer you the job over other candidates if you have a disability (this is called 'positive action' and is only possible where you are as qualified as the other candidates)
to carry out a survey (using a 'diversity' or 'equal opportunities monitoring' form) to find out how many people with a disability are applying for the job.