Under an EU scheme partly funded by British taxpayers, all positions
advertised in UK jobcentres also have to be offered to workers in European
member states.
UK firms are given as much as £1,000 as a bonus for taking on the foreign
workers.
The disclosure undermined comments made by Matthew Hancock, the business and
skills minister, who called on UK bosses to stop taking the “easy option” of
filling jobs with foreigners when they could train local workers instead.
Just hours after Mr Hancock’s intervention it emerged that that a website
called EURES, which was set up by the European Commission, is advertising
808,659 UK jobs to people on the continent.
The EU scheme offers foreigners hundreds of pounds of funding to pay for
interviews in the UK, relocation costs and even English lessons.