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Sex job ads banned at employment offices
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain is to ban employers looking for lap dancers, strippers, topless barmaids or sexy web-cam performers from placing adverts at Jobcentres.
Such a ban had previously been in place at the taxpayer-funded employment exchanges but that changed seven years ago when Ann Summers, a sex toys and suggestive lingerie retailer, successfully argued at the High Court that it was unlawful.
Now the government plans to legislate to protect vulnerable jobseekers who are keen to get back to work from feeling they have to consider jobs that they are not comfortable with, Minister for Employment Chris Grayling said in a statement.
"We shouldn't put vulnerable people in an environment where they're exposed to these types of jobs and could feel under pressure to work in the sex industry."
The statement specified that Jobcentres would no longer advertise jobs "that involve the direct sexual stimulation of others" because public money should not be a conduit to such work.
However, Jobcentres will continue to advertise other types of vacancies in the adult entertainment sector, such as cleaning jobs in striptease clubs.
(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Steve Addison)
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The woman’s “pressured” in trying to find any job, & if the government removes these legal jobs from their pool that’s just that many frewer jobs they’ll be able to help fill.
What I don’t get is your inability to pluralize woman, the plural of woman is women.
Beyond that your statement is just a blanket one.
If this keeps young women, mainly those under age from doing these types of jobs because they are quick easy “pocket change” (referring to tips now, even though it seems most of Britain doesn’t seem to do that) then it should be clarified under the age of 18. At that point there is not any concern about baby rapers going to these places for a cheap thrill, lets face it that is why they go anyway.
I do agree that if this is the only position available for an Adult woman to keep food on the table and a roof over her child’s head … presuming that this job is now needed due to the loss of a spouse for whatever reason then they should be accessible to these women.
I DO NOT feel that any woman who has 3 or 4 kids by different fathers and has spent her life in the “sex industry” is going to go anywhere so that job is still going to be taken and she will be making the money she needs to pay for her mistakes. By doing so staying off the DOLE.
Anyway, my 2 pence worth.
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