[Peet]

'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
By Clare Chapman
(Filed: 30/01/2005)

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.

More here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml

Peet

[The Rabbi]

Like a lot of what is widely reported, it is totally false.
See here
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp

[tulsamal]

I love snopes.com.

I must hit it at least once a day in order to debunk forwarded emails that people insist on sending me. I hit Reply All and put in the relevant quotes and links to Snopes. But then they STILL send me stuff.

Gregg

[Peet]

Dammit, I shoulda known. I keep forgetting ANYTHING from
my little brother is suspect.

Sorry guys.

Admin? Delete thread?

Peet