Let's check in to see what Europe is prioritizing these days!
The first country in the world to pass a law requiring employment contracts, health insurance, pensions, unemployment, family benefits, holidays, and maternity leave for prostitutes.
PROSTITUTES!!!
Belgium has become the first country in the world to approve a labour law on employment contracts for sex workers.
Under the law, if a prostitute refuses a client more than ten times over six months, a pimp can trigger an intervention by a government mediator but cannot sack the employee.
It also entitles the sex worker to health insurance, pensions, unemployment and family benefits, holidays and maternity leave.
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The law makes it legal to give prostitutes employment contracts, after Belgium became the first country in Europe to decriminalise self-employed sex work in 2022.
I know this is a real article from The Telegraph, but it reads too much like a Babylon Bee article for me to stop quoting from it.
Sex workers are also entitled to carry out a sexual act how they wish and to refuse to sit behind Amsterdam-style windows, which are also used in Belgium, or to advertise if their safety is at risk.
Invoking any of these rights more than 10 times in half a year can lead to the government mediation service being called by the worker or employer.
Sex workers can also end their contract at any time with no notice period and do not lose their right to unemployment benefits when terminating their employment.
So they've got a 10-strike rule?!?!
Sounds legit!
More of this because I'm just eating it up 🤣
Pimps must have a registered office in Belgium and apply for approval before they can offer the contracts.
Approval will be withheld if they have convictions for crimes including sexual assault, murder, extortion, abuse of sex workers or voyeurism.
They must provide the sex worker with an alarm button, which must be in the room where the sexual services are provided or be portable if the worker is travelling to the client.
The employer must also ensure sex workers have access to someone in charge of ensuring their safety, and that unions and support organisations have access to the brothels at all times.
A pimp registry is all I needed to learn about today in order to be fulfilled. I'm wrapping it up, calling it a day. I'll see you all in the morning!
The law was approved in the Belgian parliament 93-0 with 33 abstaining. Again, this is Not The Bee that you're reading.
And yes, there are next steps for this law, which I'm not even kidding, will likely see its share of copycat laws throughout Europe in the coming years.
The next step will be the finalisation of three decrees focusing on the practicalities of the procedure for recognising employers, regulations on the size of rooms, workplace hygiene and the maximum number of sex workers per room, and the government mediation service.
Bro, I can't!!
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