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

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[–]VantaFount 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Dateline: 30 Jan 2005
I wonder how all of this panned out.
Since we didn't hear about it back then, I'm going to assume they made exemptions to the law, and swept the embarrassing business under the rug.

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Didn't even see it was that old. Came across elsewhere. Now I can file it under TIL

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/outrage-after-job-center-suggests-brothel-job-for-young-woman-in-germany-a-882021.html

Solved in a court case in 2009.

In a precedent-setting case on the matter, Germany's Federal Social Court ruled in 2009 that the country's constitution does not permit the "active promotion of prostitution through the exercise of official authority" -- a decision that provided legal backing to the job centers' position.

The ruling came after the operator of two brothels -- both called Laura's Girls -- in Speyer and Karlsruhe sued after a job agency refused to post listings to fill positions for 12 prostitutes from Germany and the European Union.

At the time, job center officials argued they would not do placements for prostitution "as long as there is no clear moral position on prostitution in Germany." However, they continued, if there were a moral consensus that it was an acceptable position, they would be required to treat it as a "normal profession -- without any fussing or quibbling."

I'd edit the title to mark it old if I could - interesting but not news. Gonna delete.

[–]VantaFount 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I really appreciate the follow-up, thank you.