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
Anyone can apply for Paid Parental Leave in Australia, and as long as you meet the requirements it doesn’t matter if you’re self employed or not. You’re supported.
Sex workers can also legally work individually or with a business (Who will also be paying parental leave).
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.
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
Anyone can apply for Paid Parental Leave in Australia, and as long as you meet the requirements it doesn’t matter if you’re self employed or not. You’re supported.
Sex workers can also legally work individually or with a business (Who will also be paying parental leave).
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.