Unemployed actors in Brussels recently expressed outrage towards a local public employment service, Actiris, after a “scandalous” question on a job-seeking inquiry form was included. This query was meant to determine whether or not unemployed actors would be willing to take up roles in erotic or pornographic movies.
Francoise De Smedt of the left-wing Workers Party of Belgium critiqued the query as “inappropriate”. However, the agency’s spokesman, Romain Adam, defended it, saying ““There is nothing wrong with that,” stating that it was a way to assess job-seeker preferences.
The actors themselves were not nearly as receptive to the idea. Some unemployed actors have vented their cry of injustice on social media, a drama graduate said that it was not something they would learn in school.
The Workers Party of Belgium has urged for the query to be removed, but the decision will ultimately be made at the political level.