Job center runs steamy sauna ad

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EVREUX, France, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A French job center has agreed to carry an ad for a sauna position after rejecting it due to the description asking for "discreet and open-minded" applicants.

The Evreux job center originally refused to carry an ad for a position at the sauna, one of several owned by Guillaime de Thomas, because the ad said applicants must be "discreet and open-minded," Radio France Internationale reported Thursday.

Thierry Lemerle, the head of the regional employment service, said the language in the job description "implied that the employee should not be shocked by libertine activities."

However, the center has now agreed to run the ad after de Thomas accused it of discrimination.

Lemerle and other officials had raised concerns that job seekers uncomfortable with the job requirements could lose their benefits. The rules governing unemployment benefits state job seekers can lose their benefits if they turn down two "reasonable" offers.