“In what other profession do you need panic buttons?”
I’m just gonna look awkwardly at bank tellers, convenience store clerks, and so many other front-line customer service jobs that either have or would greatly benefit from a panic button to deal with dangerous customer interactions or outright robbery.
Absolutely. I worked as a bouncer in clubs where Bartenders and DJs had alarm and panic buttons.
Even lab environments have emergency shutdown buttons, though for safety not security reasons.
Humans work a lot of dangerous jobs and very often the danger is human.
I used to work in a hospital laboratory. You bet your butt we have panic buttons that call security to our spot when needed. And notice I said when and not if, that’s because they do get used once in a blue moon.
Wait, so one of the lab workers becomes the human threat? Or when were they needed?
Uh how is that a world first? Those rights are already granted for workers in Australia and sex work is legal, ergo they get them.
Just because sex work is legal doesn’t mean they get workers benefits. I don’t know how it works in Australia, but at least here in Germany prostitutes are only allowed to be self-employed to ensure they aren’t getting “pimped”, and being self employed means you do not get any paid maternity leave or pension
but at least here in Germany prostitutes are only allowed to be self-employed to ensure they aren’t getting “pimped”
Nope. The reason so many are self-employed is because the employment laws favour employees much more than usual. You can order a baker to knead bread at the penalty of firing, can’t order a sex worker to serve a client on penalty of firing.
The laws about pimping – in particular, holding women in financial dependence – existed way before legalisation and didn’t actually change. It was always legal to offer things such as bodyguard services and also to exchange money for sex, contracts were non-enforcable and you couldn’t have dedicated business spaces for the trade. As such the workers themselves were already plenty used to being freelancers which is probably another reason why so many are self-employed: Cultural inertia.
The change in Germany wasn’t much more about making it a regular trade, not decriminalising it because strictly speaking it has never been illegal.
I’m pretty sure that the same is true for German sex workers under the normal employment laws.
They usually aren’t “employed” though, as far as I know, as in having employment contracts. That’s the new thing they’re doing in Belgium, they’re now entitled to a contract that guarantees adherence to labour laws.
That most sex workers are self-employed in Germany is a result of the strict employment laws, in particular, if you employ a baker and tell them to knead bread and they refuse then you can fire them. Can’t do that with a sex worker as they can refuse to serve any client for any or no reason.
It’s not like there’s no employed sex workers but the more usual model is that a brothel provides a room, security, and a lobby and sex workers pay for the use of those with money they make off their clients. Just like running a business in a mall, but a particular kind of business in a particular kind of mall.
That’s disgusting, those kind of malls, which one though, where, just so I can avoid them.
All I could think seeing this article was “I sure hope that’s a picture of a Belgian sex worker!”
