Is this legal?

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A job popped up on my LinkedIn that I was interesting in applying for.

Not only do they want to know my "age range" but all sorts of other intrusive info. This can't be legal?

Based on the application form I've decided not to apply!

Well you don’t need to answer the questions

These are standard equality, diversity and inclusion questions. The data is kept separately from your application and analysed only at the aggregate level. "Prefer not to say" is generally an option for every question.

That's a fairly standard monitoring form. It's not compulsory but they're told to do them as part of equal opportunity laws to prove they have a varied workforce

Fair enough.

I have filled out applications in the past where there is a separate section that explains it's for monitoring equality and inclusion and will not be part of the interview decision process etc. However this application does NOT do that - these questions are just flung in with the other application questions.

Doesn't sit right with me as I feel it's included with everything else.

Each to their own! They've lost my application.

It’s for diversity monitoring, it shouldn’t be used as part of the hiring process itself or accessible to whoever is leading the recruitment.

The exception to this would be if the organisation is part of the “disability confident” scheme, in which case a candidates disability may be used in shortlisting for interview.

Interesting that age range is mandatory though, and disability if the organisation isn’t disability confident.

I get most of them but unless it is religious job no idea why religion is there? I guess even if a religious job not sure they need to ask

I don't personally agree with asking them but I get the others happen these days

A job "via LinkedIn" doesn't have any obligation to adhere to any country-specific legislation. Diversity type information is normally gathered by an individual organisation for their own specific diversity monitoring.

Via LinkedIn = no control over where your personal data will end up = don't apply for a job via that route if you value the integrity and security of how your data is used, shared and exploited. There's possibly a disclaimer on there along the lines of "giving us your data is your implicit consent to us using it for pretty much any purpose we want" (just a guess, but I wouldn't put it to the test!) - there's possibly some degree of compliance to GDPR / DPA 2018 but I would never trust any SM platform with my personal information.

Intrusive 😂😂😂😂

I think you are being absolutely ridiculous. I can’t remember not being asked these things in a job application process.

I presume that clicking on the "Apply" button on LinkedIn takes you to the company's website rather than this form being on LinkedIn.

The fact they are "just flung in" when filling in the online form doesn't mean that is how the answers will appear to the recruiter. They may not even be held that way in their database. It is quite possible, for example, that the equality/diversity answers aren't linked to your application at all once you've submitted the form.

Provided the answers given to these questions are not used to make recruitment decisions, there is nothing illegal about asking them. It looks like the compulsory questions have a "prefer not to say" option, so you don't have to tell them anything. I'm afraid I agree with the previous poster that you are being ridiculous. I wouldn't refuse to apply to a company just because of this. I would want more evidence than that before deciding that the company was likely to act in a discriminatory way towards employees/applicants.