egafd.com

Trouble is even laws with holes like swiss cheese cost money & time to Oppose

If you haven't the financial means you have no rights basically

Sadly the law is only available for those that can afford to use it

The number of small businesses even with an air tight legal case that have gone bankrupt because of the way the court process can be abused is a testament to what I mean

cheers
B....OZ

Yahoo has the same story as Reuters. Looks to me as if someone (the Telegraph reporter) made an unsubstantiated assumption about the possible interpretation of the new legislation.

Mart

None of my German friends have been able to find a German source for this article.
Snopes has this to say about it.

The German article that was referred to indeed put everything as hypothetical, i.e. the corresponding paragraphs are littered with subjunctives.

The general tendency of the article is: the sex industry is now in a position that allows them to ask for employees via official channels. In principle, nothing in the law would stop the agencies to force job-seeking women (or men) to work in the sex industry (or else they would lose unemployment benefit), but there is a voluntary code of conduct that would prevent that in practice.

The loophole in the law that is referred to is not specifically a problem with the sex industry, but that the law does not set a lower limit for job acceptability, e.g. that would also apply for Muslims being asked to work on a pig farm, etc.

There is a cultural difference between Germany and Britain which the telegraph writer did not understand: in Germany people like to speculate what their laws would mean if pushed to their very limit. But this is more a mind game than anything anyone would take seriously.

Talking of which.

This expression I believe is attributed to Groucho Marx and, to my mind, is very accurate.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly, and applying unsuitable remedies."

Myson

But the Telegraph article actually cites the case of an un-named woman. Is this an instance of us actually witnessing the birth of an urban myth?

Mart