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Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law

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Belgium 's sex workers will get maternity leave and pensions under world- first law.

Sex workers will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, pensions and maternity leave.

Sex work was decriminalised in Belgium in 2022 and is legal in several countries including Germany , Greece , the Netherlands and Turkey .

Critics say the trade causes trafficking, exploitation and abuse.

Belgium ’s new law puts restrictions on sex workers under new law.

Each room where sexual services take place must be equipped with an alarm button.

But Julia Crumière says the majority of the women she helps just want help to leave the profession and get a normal job’.

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51

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44

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80

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informal

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English

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31

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short-lived

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