Yeah I think that is the rule, however to be enforced a company would only be called on not following it, i.e. if there was some sort of discrimination claim by someone who was interviewed. In academia where I work most if not all jobs are advertised on jobs.ac.uk which is considered an international/EU advertisement. If I advertised a job in the Metro (i.e. UK) and only had foreign migrants apply, I would probably have to re-advertise on an EU based site. You have to be able to show that there is nobody in the UK or EU suitable for the job. At UCL where I work as it is a large organisation we follow the letter of the law, however smaller companies may not.
Yeah I think that is the rule, however to be enforced a company would only be called on not following it, i.e. if there was some sort of discrimination claim by someone who was interviewed. In academia where I work most if not all jobs are advertised on jobs.ac.uk which is considered an international/EU advertisement. If I advertised a job in the Metro (i.e. UK) and only had foreign migrants apply, I would probably have to re-advertise on an EU based site. You have to be able to show that there is nobody in the UK or EU suitable for the job. At UCL where I work as it is a large organisation we follow the letter of the law, however smaller companies may not.