Is it legal for an employer to force me to take psychological tests?
First thing you should know is there haven’t been any events or any reason to question my psychological fitness. You’ll have to trust me on that. I have been hoping for a promotion at work. Basically, I meet the criteria and the promo should be automatic.
So the executive who could grant my promotion decides to hire his friend to run some psychological tests on me. They said they just wanted to evaluate the process (being sold by the friend) and see if this would be a good thing for others. I didn’t feel I could refuse without jeopardizing my job. So I took the tests and am in the process of working through the results with the tester. The whole process will take several months. Nothing serious was found, in fact I look pretty good in it.
Now they say they won’t consider promoting me while I am doing this. I’ll now miss the only time of year I can get promoted.
Is there anything illegal about this? I have a feeling there is. I need advice from someone who would know.
If the business is privately owned, they can pretty well do anything they want. Sounds like the test was to keep you from getting the promotion. Why did they not do it with others? My guess that the owner has someone already picked out for the job. Happens all the time…
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