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quote:Miss Garweg believes that pressure on job centres to meet employment targets will soon result in them using their powers to cut the benefits of women who refuse jobs providing sexual services.
quote:False story alert: Women in Germany probably not being forced into prostitution by welfare statePosted by Ampersand | February 1st, 2005 Yesterday I posted a Telegraph article about a woman in Germany being forced to choose between losing unemployment benefits and taking a job in a brothel. It now seems likely that the Telegraph article is not true.In the comments to yesterday’s post, Alison points to this Reuters article, which says:quote:A spokesman for the Federal Labour Office said that if job seekers said they were prepared to work as, for example, dancers in strip bars, advisers could put them in touch with any suitable employers, but vacancies would not be displayed in job centres.He also stressed job centres would not look for prostitutes on behalf of brothels, nor offer sex industry jobs to people who hadn’t specifically mentioned it as an area of interest.
quote:A spokesman for the Federal Labour Office said that if job seekers said they were prepared to work as, for example, dancers in strip bars, advisers could put them in touch with any suitable employers, but vacancies would not be displayed in job centres.He also stressed job centres would not look for prostitutes on behalf of brothels, nor offer sex industry jobs to people who hadn’t specifically mentioned it as an area of interest.
quote:Originally posted by moonfireStill I am concerned with the story retraction headline "Women in Germany PROBABLY?? not being forced into prostitution by welfare state...Probably does not mean it is absolute. It could mean there may be some validity in this story...