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Monday, January 31, 2005

Germany to women: Screw or be screwed

From the Telegraph (via Volokh):
    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.
    ...
    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.
The reason the German government didn't make an exception for prostitution:
    The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars.