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The things you have to do to collect a little unemployment. This is where we're headed if the lib secularists have their way.
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http://kipesquire.blogspot.com/2005/01/germany-work-as-prostitute-or-lose.html

January 30, 2005
Germany: Work as Prostitute or Lose Unemployment Benefits
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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."

Turns out I do have a comment: What if she were a lesbian unemployment recipients were expected not only to work in a brothel, but also to perform services inconsistent with their sexual orientation? (Revised to reflect an observation in the Comments section.)
 
I think most women are forced into this, for many different reasons. Yes, I'm aware that there's always a choice. But, sometimes this might be the best choice. I don't think a little girl aspires to be a prositute. And I don't believe a woman wakes up on morning & says, "Hey, I think I'll be a prostitute" or chooses this as a career change. But to be denied benefits....... will wonders never cease?
 
Merlin1047 said:
The things you have to do to collect a little unemployment. This is where we're headed if the lib secularists have their way.
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http://kipesquire.blogspot.com/2005/01/germany-work-as-prostitute-or-lose.html

January 30, 2005
Germany: Work as Prostitute or Lose Unemployment Benefits
Posted without comment:

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."

Turns out I do have a comment: What if she were a lesbian unemployment recipients were expected not only to work in a brothel, but also to perform services inconsistent with their sexual orientation? (Revised to reflect an observation in the Comments section.)

i think Darin posted this one the other day. quite the situation there...lol
get off your ass and on your back or your cut off...sheesh
 
Johnney said:
.....get off your ass and on your back or your cut off...s
I wonder how many married women have heard that exact line?
 
http://xrlq.com/archives/2005/01/31/2134/unemployed-german-prostitutes/

1/31/2005
Unemployed German Prostitutes
Filed under: Urban Legends Morons Media Lameness by Xrlq @ 7:45 am
I’m taking this story by Clare Chapman of the Daily Independent (h/t: Captain Ed, see also Michael Williams, Todd Zywicki, Donovan, Professor Bainbridge, John Weidner, Kip, Pejmanesque, Low Earth Orbit, Lawrence Auster, Ann Althouse and the Daily Pundit) with a very large grain of salt, as my sources on the ground have informed me that the lawyer involved, Mechthild Garweg (whose first name Chapman misspells “Merchthild"), is Germany’s answer to Gloria Allred. Here is a somewhat more informative article, albeit in German. I’ll translate the key provisions later if I get some spare time.

UPDATE: Done.

FINAL UPDATE: Snopes is reserving judgment, but I’m not. This story is officially bunk, with pieces of it cribbed from another story about an unemployed woman in Berlin who was inadvertently referred to a “bartending” job at a facility which, unbeknownst to the agency, was in fact a bordello. Unlike Clare Chapman and her rag of a newsper, the unemployment agency has already apologized for their error. Kudos to Amptoons for swatting this down early as well.

All further blogger speculation on this subject should end immediately, and if the Daily Telegraph wants to retain a shred of credibility, s should Clare Chapman’s career and that of her editor. Such “fake but inaccurate” sensationalism has no more of a legitimate place in the British media than Dan Rather and Mary Mapes have in ours. I’ve refiled this entry under Media Lameness, Morons and Urban Legends.

FINAL FINAL UPDATE: Snopes is now calling the story a hoax, as well.
 
awwww !@#@$$%&**??!!*%$+!!

and I thought I'd found the story of the month.
 
Merlin1047 said:
awwww !@#@$$%&**??!!*%$+!!

and I thought I'd found the story of the month.
It was good and lasted for a day. :teeth:
 
The things you have to do to collect a little unemployment. This is where we're headed if the lib secularists have their way.
=================================================

http://kipesquire.blogspot.com/2005/01/germany-work-as-prostitute-or-lose.html

January 30, 2005
Germany: Work as Prostitute or Lose Unemployment Benefits
Posted without comment:

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."

Turns out I do have a comment: What if she were a lesbian unemployment recipients were expected not only to work in a brothel, but also to perform services inconsistent with their sexual orientation? (Revised to reflect an observation in the Comments section.)
i doubt it ….
 

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