'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'

tricknologist · Jan 30, 2005

This is fucked up.

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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.
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Kandahar · Jan 30, 2005

Umm...wow.

tricknologist · Jan 30, 2005

My source was British, not German. Any Germans willing to confirm or deny this ?

freeinalaska · Feb 2, 2005

Of course you shouldn't include prostitution in the same group as waitress.......but was there really no job to be had, not one, in over a year in Berlin? Sounds like a screwed up policy/law is catching up to someone who really just wanted to ride on unemployment benifits.

Megara · Feb 2, 2005

freeinalaska said:

Of course you shouldn't include prostitution in the same group as waitress.......but was there really no job to be had, not one, in over a year in Berlin? Sounds like a screwed up policy/law is catching up to someone who really just wanted to ride on unemployment benifits.
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germany currently has the highest rate of unemployment since the great depression.

freeinalaska · Feb 2, 2005

megara said:

germany currently has the highest rate of unemployment since the great depression.
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I guess I just placed Berlin in a group of first world cities without knowing what I was talking about. I tend to be be biased regarding unemployment in major US cities.

Kandahar · Feb 2, 2005

Germany is currently in a major recession / minor depression, so I think it's plausible that there weren't any jobs available for over a year.

tricknologist · Feb 2, 2005

Megara said:

germany currently has the highest rate of unemployment since the great depression.
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You're right, I just found out how bad it is over there.

BBC said:

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Germany's unemployment figure rose above the psychologically important level of five million last month.

On Wednesday, the German Federal Labour Agency said the jobless total had reached 5.037 million in January, which takes the jobless rate to 12.1%.

"Yes, we have effectively more than five million people unemployed," a government minister said earlier on ZDF public television. Unemployment has not been this high in Germany since the 1930s.
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