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☆ Maternity Leave and Ongoing Consent: New Rights for Belgium’s Sex Workers
  + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Amelia Nierenberg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
A new law gives some sex workers in Belgium more protection from exploitation and violence and more social benefits than any other similar legislation in the world, rights researchers and advocates say. Belgium decriminalized sex work in 2022, a first for Europe. Under this new labor law, which passed in May and took effect on Sunday, sex workers can choose to sign a formal employment contract — although they do not have to do so. “It is the most comprehensive labor law related to sex work that we have seen globally,” Erin Kilbride, a researcher at Human Rights Watch who focuses on women’s rights and L.G.B.T.Q. A labor contract will give sex workers of all genders, as it does other employees, broader access to the country’s robust social security system, including paid maternity leave and sick leave, unemployment aid and the ability to make pension contributions.
Persons: Erin Kilbride Organizations: Europe, Human Rights Watch Locations: Belgium
☆ Sex workers in Belgium now have maternity leave and sick pay in world first for employment rights
  + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
London CNN —Sex workers in Belgium are now entitled to formal employment contracts, which include sick pay and maternity leave, under a landmark law that went into effect Sunday. The new law requires the employers of sex workers to obtain a license from the government, Deltour told CNN. These laws made it “impossible to perform the job in a normal and safe way,” according to the Belgian Union of Sex Workers. That was a crucial step in protecting sex workers from violence, for example, but didn’t give them access to social security. “Sex workers deserve the same rights and freedoms as all workers, and this law is a world first moving us in that direction.”The new law, however, doesn’t cover all types of sex workers.
Persons: Daan Bauwens, Quentin Deltour, Deltour, “, ” Deltour, Erin Kilbride, ” Organizations: London CNN, Belgian, Belgian Union of Sex Workers, CNN, Espace, Global Network, Sex, “ Employers, Belgium “, Human Rights Watch Locations: Belgium, Belgian, Germany, Netherlands, US
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