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Job centre ban for "adult" job adverts.
Ministers are to ban Jobcentres from advertising for strippers, lap dancers and topless barmaids. The Employment minister, Chris Grayling, will tomorrow order government-run agencies not to offer jobs in the adult entertainment industry, after campaigners claimed that such ads validate the idea that "sexually exploitative work is an acceptable career".
The Government wanted to bar all "adult" adverts but were successfully challenged in court by the lingerie firm Ann Summers in 2003. The new ban will cover only jobs involving the "sexual stimulation of others", allowing Jobcentres to accept adverts for shop staff or cleaners in bars, but not "performers", either on stage or online.
The policy change will be followed by a change in the law to prevent another court battle. In 2008, Jobcentres advertised more than 350 jobs in the sex industry.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/adverts-for-sex-worker-banned-2040611.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10838933
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/07/31/jobcentres-told-to-take-down-all-ads-for-strippers-115875-22453444/
I thought the Tory-Lib coalition were supposed to be against bans and the top-down heavy hand of the state, and in favour of the free market.
What if local communities get together, big society style, and decide that they want their job centres to reinstate the adverts?
I bet they still advertise jobs for positions in the arms industries.
Hmmm and, indeed, interesting.