Bill Would Boost Legal Standing of Prostitutes
Germany’s lower house of Parliament passed a bill to boost the low legal standing of prostitutes and give sex workers the right to unemployment benefit, retraining, health insurance and a pension.
Sex workers will be legally entitled to turn away customers, refuse to perform certain sex acts and take disputes with clients over payment to court under the bill passed by the Bundestag.
Prostitution is not illegal in Germany and sex workers pay tax on their earnings, but sexual services were previously described as “immoral” in the German legal code.
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