But I suppose the National Organization for Women actually supports this. The only freedom they care about is abortion rights. Having to sell your body must be okay. Everything is better in Europe, after all.
Still, check this out:
A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.
The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe.
She received a letter from the job centre telling her that an employer was interested in her "profile'' and that she should ring them. Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel.
Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.
The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.
When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.
"There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex industry," said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specialises in such cases. "The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."
(atsrtwt)
(nod to Craig Depken , my partner at DoL)
4 comments:
That's disturbing and disgusting. Though, it does make you look at lobbying in a whole new light. Isn't a huge waste of valuable human capital? I mean, this waitress is already wasting her degree, but at least she can wait for the industry to pick up again. Brothels are not exactly a free market. There's little barrier to entry, but high barrier to exit or at least that's the perception I have. Nice of the Germans to litigate away the rights of the unemployed.
totally gratuitous swipe at NOW, whatever you may think of them. beneath even you, Munger.
There are no sentences where "gratuitous swipe at now" makes sense.
Except...maybe....this one:
"There is no such thing as a gratuitous swipe at N.O.W.; all swipes at that craven, corrupt organization are justified."
Check Snopes. It is an Urban Legend.
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