Foo - Newz of da Wierd: prostitution or no unemployment benes

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LordOpie
01-31-05, 01:44 PM
'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
By Clare Chapman

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.
more (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml)
holy crapazoid! :eek:


snowy
01-31-05, 02:06 PM
Speechless!!!!

Billy Ray
01-31-05, 03:28 PM
Absolutely unreal.

BR


MERTON
01-31-05, 05:06 PM
she should argue that it endangers her health and future job prospects.

skiahh
01-31-05, 09:14 PM
Sounds pretty fishy to me.....

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp

Allister
01-31-05, 09:36 PM
Snopes.com are such party-poopers.

lotek
02-01-05, 07:46 AM
having been to Germany, and having experienced bureaucracy
(not necessarily Greman) I can believe it.

LordOpie
02-01-05, 08:57 AM
Sounds pretty fishy to me.....

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp
No way. The press never get their info wrong!

Spocher
02-01-05, 08:58 AM
Sounds like case for a sub-section of the law. heh.