Whoring for Healthcare

The dangers of the moral relativism of the left are always in the details. If you think I am making it up that the following is going on in Germany, you'd be wrong. Can you imagine Seniors in this country being told they have to man phone sex lines, or worse; or lose their government funded prescription plan? Think it can't happen? Again, you'd be wrong. Incredible. Read the rest.

"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."

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.

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

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.

"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."

Comments

[chrys]

Ah - now we know why some things should remain illegal. Action/Reaction of liberalism i guess. Now the government is in the "Pimp" business.

[jeff]

But it sounds like she APPLIED for the job. It's the same here, if you turn down a job you apply for, you lose your unemployment. Ditzy broad

[Dan]

I didn't get that from what I read, only that she had called without knowing it was a Brothel.

[DC]

Another reason why me and my peeps in the trailer park here know that we need not be like the Euros after all.