{"id":48790,"date":"2015-03-11T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T01:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_barcelona_brothel_workers_get_spanish_social_welfare_rights\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T01:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T01:08:23","slug":"ap_barcelona_brothel_workers_get_spanish_social_welfare_rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48790","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Barcelona brothel workers get Spanish social welfare rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark ruling, a Barcelona judge has decided three sex workers should have been hired full-time by a brothel owner and ordered her to pay contributions to the government so the prostitutes will be eligible for national health care, disability insurance, unemployment benefits and government pensions.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling issued in February &#8211; and made public this week &#8211; can be appealed and does not create a precedent for Spain&#8217;s estimated hundreds of thousands of prostitutes, whose ranks are believed to have increased during the country&#8217;s crushing financial crisis that started in 2008 and lingers with unemployment at 24 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But advocates for sex workers said Tuesday that Judge Juan Agusti Maragall&#8217;s decision is important because it recognizes the legal inability of some brothel workers to get benefits mandated for employees of companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_SPAIN_PROSTITUTES?SITE=AP\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark ruling, a Barcelona judge has decided three sex workers should have been hired full-time by a brothel owner and ordered her to pay contributions to the government so the prostitutes will be eligible for national health care,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48790\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,582,589,149,168,200,114,151,112,446,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-sexuality","category-spain","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}