OK, here's the story. Sounds a little like an urban legend, but apparently it's true.

In Germany, unemployment is pretty high. So a while back, they made a law that says you can only collect your unemployment compensation if you are unemployed through no fault of your own. Part of that is that if you turn down a job, you lose your unemployment.

Also in recent years, what with the de-Christianization of a lot of Europe, there's been a push to de-stigmatize prostitution. It's legal in the Netherlands, of course, and I guess it's now legal in Germany as well. Brothels are now legitimate, tax-paying businesses.

I'm not really a libertarian, but I have my impulses that way sometimes. I would definitely be pro- the legalization of pot etc. So at least to a part of my brain, both of these laws sort of make sense. Don't they to you, too?

The problem comes when you combine the two laws.

Apparently a woman in Germany turned down an offered job as a hooker, and so she's going to be denied unemployment.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... germ30.xml

That is just so fucked up.

Ughh..

I'm actually appalled.

That's just plain retarded.

.... what the feck? Some people and their retardedness...

Thats sounds like something the American government would come up with.

I think this must just be a legal loophole and they need this test case to close it.

I can't imagine that the woman will lose this case.