Another major victory for European lawmakers...

[alexpgp]

An eye-opener from the Telegraph:

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. [...]

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.

Hard to believe.

Cheers...

Comments

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

Shrub's bunch might appreciate that news bit! Isn't that what they are doing (as it were) to news persons, Congresspeople, and anyone else not wealthy enough not to need the current social support systems?

Eventually, one may be required to prostitute oneself in order to receive Social Security or Medicare, eh... What IS this world coming to??

[tigra-polosatay.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a joke. I could hardly believe...
Europe is becoming insane...