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Hi All

Quick question for all your HR buffs, legal eagles and employers.

I know that we used to have a rule in this country about employment of non-eu nationals, in that you had to prove that a non-eu national would be employed only where the relevant skills were unavailable in an eu national - effectively closing the dor on spurious cheap labour areas like turkey (where the ankara agreement allows turkish nationals to work on a self employed basis)

Is this still in existence? If I have misunderstood, does anyone know the appropriate law?

Cheers