Women Can't Be Forced to Work in the Sex Industry
The incident raises some interesting points in the country, which is regarded as progressive on sexual matters. In 2002, the country legalized prostitution, and two years later, Berlin introduced reforms in the unemployment laws aimed at slowly stripping away benefits for the jobless if they were unwilling to accept employment offers. The amendments also made it technically legal for job agencies to broker jobs in prostitution. Since these changes to the country's laws, those employed as sex workers have the same rights to a pension and health insurance as any other worker.
At one point, a major debate erupted in the tabloid media over whether government-run job centers could force women into prostitution. In 2004, however, the job centers issued a voluntary regulation that women who refused job offers as prostitutes would not have their unemployment benefits curtailed.
Nevertheless, there have been repeated incidents in which women have felt pressured. And, legal or not, the protests are likely to be loud whenever any kind of morally questionable offer is made.
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.
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