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Berlin- Mandatory Brothel Employment

 

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.

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This is an article from 2005. And it is not true.

See here: http://www.snopes.co...ews/brothel.asp

 

Albeit prostitution is legal in Germany and prostitutes have to pay taxes (so called sex-tax) in many cities nowadays, unemployed women can not be forced by the authorities (job centers) to work at brothels.

 

When prostitution became legal, there was a - not very seriou -, discussion in German media, that unemployed women could be forced to work as prostitutes. The discussion ended after a few days, when the Government announced that this will not happen.

 

 

 

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who knows, maybe with increased problems and costs of welfare in European countries, this will change. Unemployment rates are so high and will be higher in future, so that governments can just not afford to feed all the unemployed. They might enforce the unemployed to accept all kind of jobs, even in brothels or otherwise cut the payments.

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who knows, maybe with increased problems and costs of welfare in European countries, this will change. Unemployment rates are so high and will be higher in future, so that governments can just not afford to feed all the unemployed. They might enforce the unemployed to accept all kind of jobs, even in brothels or otherwise cut the payments.

 

There aren't many countries in which prostitution is a legit, taxable, health insured (albeit self paid) profession.

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in most of the countries of the EU, or not?

 

I don't think so. Prostitution might be tolerated in one way or another, but is mostly not seen as a legit business with its rights and duties.

Only in eight countries prostition is legal _and_ regulated, and only in five of them brothels are legal _and_ regulated.

On the other hand in three countries the punters are being prosecuted: In Sweden, Norway, and Iceland it is illegal to pay for sex, but not to be a prostitute (the client commits a crime, but not the prostitute).

More info here: http://en.wikipedia....ution_in_Europe

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Kamui, you seem to be THE expert on prostitution in EU!

 

Not really. I have never participated in P4P in the EU outside Germany. I have much more experience in Asia in this matter... smirk.gif

 

But I find the discussion interesting and it shows how diverse Europe is. It seems that in Europe you can find every possible position how to deal with prostitution. From an illegal underground scene up to being a legit profession...

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Berlin- Mandatory Brothel Employment

 

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.

 

 

Even if this was true,

a person would need a liscense for that field.

If they were unemployed but did not have a liscense in that field,

they could not be forced to get a liscense and work in that field.

 

For example, there is an opening for a taxi cab driver.

The government can not force a person to get a taxi liscense

and take the taxi job or lose their unemployment.

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