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When I first read this I thought this was a bad joke.
I looked for the
"punch line". There was none!!!
This is Government (Not Permitted, Not Endorsed, But)
MANDATED Sex Slavery.
Since Prostitution has been legalized in Germany 2 years
ago, and 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.
At 55, a woman can be a great grandmother!!!!
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.
Can Not distinguish a Brothel from a Bar?????? Have I
REALLY been in a
large number of Bars that were really Brothels, and I
couldn't tell the
difference???
It gets more bizarre. Job Centres that refuse to
penalize people who turn
down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action
from the potential
employer. In other words, a woman who refuses a job offer
by a brothel, can
not continue to collect unemployment benefits, OR the
brothel can sue the
Job Centre!!!!!
Is this an example of "superior" Northern European
thinking? Will Italy
likewise be seduced?
London News. Telegraph
By Clare Chapman
Sunday, April 10, 2005
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."
Miss Garweg said that women who had worked in call centres
had been offered
jobs on telephone sex lines. At one job centre in the
city of Gotha, a
23-year-old woman was told that she had to attend an
interview as a "nude
model", and should report back on the meeting. Employers
in the sex
industry can also advertise in job centres, a move that
came into force
this month. A job centre that refuses to accept the advertisement
can be
sued.
Tatiana Ulyanova, who owns a brothel in central Berlin,
has been searching
the online database of her local job centre for recruits.
"Why shouldn't I look for employees through the job centre
when I pay my
taxes just like anybody else?" said Miss Ulyanova.
Ulrich Kueperkoch wanted to open a brothel in Goerlitz,
in former East
Germany, but his local job centre withdrew his advertisement
for 12
prostitutes, saying it would be impossible to find them.
Mr Kueperkoch said that he was confident of demand for
a brothel in the
area and planned to take a claim for compensation to
the highest court.
Prostitution was legalised in Germany in 2002 because
the government
believed that this would help to combat trafficking in
women and cut links
to organised crime.
Miss Garweg believes that pressure on job centres to meet
employment
targets will soon result in them using their powers to
cut the benefits of
women who refuse jobs providing sexual services.
"They are already prepared to push women into jobs related
to sexual
services, but which don't count as prostitution,'' she
said.
"Now that prostitution is no longer considered by the
law to be immoral,
there is really nothing but the goodwill of the job centres
to stop them
from pushing women into jobs they don't want to do."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
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