I think by "effectively" he means the company will pay the employee less to compensate for the recruitment fee, not that the employee is directly charged.
Recruiters only make sense in an environment where labor supply is short. Potential employees are not going to accept lower salaries simply because the recruiter's client has a recruitment fee to pay on top of it. So the client ends up paying both.
If you get employed directly you don't get paid any more do you - sounds like the OP is young and doesn't understand how the world works - or more negatively is not suited for a professional role ie what can I scam out of my employer no mater what