A new law in Belgium granting labor rights to sex workers went into effect Sunday after the European country voted in 2022 to decriminalize sex work.

Belgium is granting sex workers full labor rights, including health insurance, paid leave and pensions, starting Sunday.

A new law – the first of its kind in Europe and across the rest of the world – is giving sex workers in Belgium basic employment rights. Prostitution in Belgium is legal, after it was decriminalised in the summer of 2022, with around 30,000 people working in the industry since then.

Belgium has become the first country to officially recognize sex workers’ rights, providing benefits like maternity leave and health insurance. This follows the decriminalization of sex work in 2022,

Her life would have been much easier had she had a right to maternity leave, paid by her employer. Under a new law in Belgium - the first of its kind in the world - this will now

Belgium on Sunday passed a landmark law granting sex workers the same rights as other workers. The new law ensures that sex workers are treated as

Belgian sex workers have been granted the right to maternity pay and pension rights under the first law of its kind in the world

The new law also gives sex workers the right to refuse clients, choose their practices and stop an act at any moment. | ITV National News

World-first law’ gives access to health insurance, pension, paid leave, maternity benefits, unemployment support, right to refuse clients.