02-02-2005, 03:22 PM
Hi,
It's any woman below the age of 55, not over. Older people have a much harder time to find a new job, and thus don't have to accept any job offered to them.
That's a standard argument often heard: That everyone would be able to find a job if only (s)he would really be willing to work. Well, just today the new unemplyment statistics for Germany have been published, and officially, there are over five million people without a job. But the statistics are made so that some people won't be accounted for, and six to seven million people are probably more realistic. Now I cannot believe that way over 10% of all Germans potentially able to work are lazy bums who just don't want to work. And even if IT professionals start to clean toilets and lawyers serve Big Macs, I have a hard time to believe that we will see more McDonald's restaurants in the future that had been unable to open up before just because they lacked toilet cleaners and Bic Mac cookers...
-Kylearan
Roland,Feb 2 2005, 02:53 PM Wrote:The law stipulates that any woman over the age of 55 (already we're cutting out a huge portion of the population) that as been unemployed for over a year (and thus further reducing the count) must take up a legal, offered job or risk losing her unemployment benefits.
It's any woman below the age of 55, not over. Older people have a much harder time to find a new job, and thus don't have to accept any job offered to them.
Quote:Quite frankly, from a stance of practically I see nothing wrong with it. No one is forcing her to take a job she doesn't want to - she's had AMPLE time to find a job suitable to her moral standards; [...] I cannot possibly believe that there are NO jobs at all whatsoever aside from brothels.
That's a standard argument often heard: That everyone would be able to find a job if only (s)he would really be willing to work. Well, just today the new unemplyment statistics for Germany have been published, and officially, there are over five million people without a job. But the statistics are made so that some people won't be accounted for, and six to seven million people are probably more realistic. Now I cannot believe that way over 10% of all Germans potentially able to work are lazy bums who just don't want to work. And even if IT professionals start to clean toilets and lawyers serve Big Macs, I have a hard time to believe that we will see more McDonald's restaurants in the future that had been unable to open up before just because they lacked toilet cleaners and Bic Mac cookers...
-Kylearan
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