Is this legal?

NAS93775 said:

One of the tasks is displaying faces and assigning emotions to them. Is this legal as surely this is direct discrimination against autistic applicants? 

A big part of answering this question is whether the skills they are looking for involve being able to detect emotions in others.

If it is required then they are quite entitled to discriminate agains those who lack these skill, whether autistic or not.

It would be like a position for a taxi driver being unsuitable to autists because some of us find driving stressful - it is all about context.

I've had to do a lot of psychometric assessments over the years and they are getting more effective at finding the "temperament" of applicant for the jobs but this does often rule out needier applicants such as autists.

I certainly found a lot of clearly autistic applicants for entry level IT roles I interviewed dropped off markedly once the psychometric tests were introduced.

It i hard to draw conclusions but it is clear that most autists are not suited to many types of work - each of us being different make it vary from person to person.

NAS93775 said:

One of the tasks is displaying faces and assigning emotions to them. Is this legal as surely this is direct discrimination against autistic applicants? 

A big part of answering this question is whether the skills they are looking for involve being able to detect emotions in others.

If it is required then they are quite entitled to discriminate agains those who lack these skill, whether autistic or not.

It would be like a position for a taxi driver being unsuitable to autists because some of us find driving stressful - it is all about context.

I've had to do a lot of psychometric assessments over the years and they are getting more effective at finding the "temperament" of applicant for the jobs but this does often rule out needier applicants such as autists.

I certainly found a lot of clearly autistic applicants for entry level IT roles I interviewed dropped off markedly once the psychometric tests were introduced.

It i hard to draw conclusions but it is clear that most autists are not suited to many types of work - each of us being different make it vary from person to person.