>2. In addition, you would have to make the application very specific to a given position. If the employer can say "you don't qualify for L7 that you applied for, buuut... we could transfer your application to the L5 track", then we are back to where we started.

In banking, there's various thresholds for transfers or deposits or withdrawals that require scrutiny or reporting. There's also laws that amount to "Don't fuck with us" around deliberately narrowly avoiding those thresholds.

I think that this law could have a similar "Don't fuck with us" clause, where a company can reasonably adjust what jobs they offer people that apply to their posted jobs occasionally, but if they're clearly deliberately misleading applicants, they get penalized enough to make it cost more than they benefit.