Personality Test Law and Legal Definition
A personality test is a tool that attempts to measure a person's social interaction skills and patterns of behavior. An employee cannot be legally required to take a personality test, but if they are an employee-at-will, they may be fired for refusing to take such a test. Some employers use personality tests in hiring in an attempt to reduce employee turnover.
Personality tests can contain biases against members of a minority class, though if this is the case, and it can be proven, the test would then be against the law. If a personality test asks questions meant to elicit religious beliefs, sexual practices, or race norms, the test is illegal, and a legal claim may be made against an employer over a test that is deemed to be psychologically invasive, though such lawsuits are very expensive and difficult to win.
Legal Definition list
- Personality Disorder
- Personal-Comfort Doctrine
- Personal Use Quantities [Food and Drugs]
- Personal Use Property
- Personal Use [Federal Elections]
- Personality Test
- Personality Theory [Intellectual Property]
- Personally Identifiable Financial Information
- Personally Identifiable Information ( Bankruptcy)
- Personally Identifiable Information [Education]
- Personally Identifying Information
Related Legal Terms
- Ab Intestato
- ABC Test
- Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison Test
- Abstractions Test
- Acceptance Testing
- Acceptor Supra Protest
- Acid Test Ratio
- Actual-Risk Test
- Actus Inceptus Cujus Perfectio Pendet Ex Voluntate Partium Revocari Potest, Si Autem Pendet Ex Voluntate Tertiae Personae, Vel Ex Contingenti, Revocar
- Ad Testificandum
