Yes, companies indeed break the law all the time. Most of the time, nobody with any power gives a fuck, and in the rare cases where they do, the consequences tend to be comfortably inside the “cost of doing business” range.

I haven't checked, but I believe that most member states have not yet passed the bill, despite the deadline of the european union.

So companies are not even breaking the law, just delaying the process...

Apparently, in France, the bill is not yet ready, and given the current state of legislative process, I don't think it's going to be ever voted before the next elections.

Again, member states miss European deadlines, but since it has no practical consequences, I don't see a why they would do it differently.

Same issue in Romania.

I wouldn't have been bothered if it where some exhaustive reform of the work law, but in practice it would amount to a couple of amendments. Probably could be drafted up in an afternoon.

This is also the case in Germany, although here it has more so to do with the current government not wanting to implement this law, so they are dragging their feet and not doing it.

Does the law, as implemented in their local member country, state that they have to state the salary range on that sort of post. There are a number of possible loopholes I can think of depending on how their regulations are written: it is an international posting, it is an informal/prospective posting, the information is available on their site (which they may or may not link to) etc.

Also “in the last year” means only ~50% of that time is covered by when enforcement started.

Most of the jobs in that HN thread do give a salary expectation (though a few with a very wide range, which might be outside the rules, but they were US anyway so not covered), I don't think I saw an EU one in my quick scan that did not (at least one UK one, but again those are not currently covered by such rules).