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Old Jan 08, 2016, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by lolagrace View Post
This couldn't be asked in the U.S. unless the job is specifically defined prior to employment as requiring or excluding certain health criteria (for instance, if a job required a person to be able to lift 50 lbs unassisted, they could ask about health IF that criteria was disclosed upon application AND the health questions directly related to that criteria). I have no idea was your country's laws are about health questions though.
Yes the whole thing is very strange. Maybe people from the UK (the job is in the UK) will be able to chime in and give more info about that kind of practice.