In the UK, it's illegal to block people from getting the job for anything which doesn't fall under the General Operating Requirements (GOR) of the job. This mea

In the UK, it's illegal to block people from getting the job for anything which doesn't fall under the General Operating Requirements (GOR) of the job. This means that you can refuse to hire someone in a wheelchair for a bricklaying job (for the sake of pedantry, lets assume they cannot physically do the job) but you cannot just because someone has a certain religion. It's a shockingly sensible piece of legislation. Some interesting consequences that I know have been tested in court: You can't be 'over-qualified' for a job, that's a form of age discrimination. An over-qualified person shouldn't be less able to do the job. You can fire someone for wearing a niqab if it stops them from doing their job (e.g. teaching English to young students to whom English is a second language). So, if you can show that not having the qualification doesn't disadvantage you then I would expect that'd be a legal issue.