public employment
State sector work
Public employment is work for a government entity rather than a private business—federal, state, or local.
Teachers, police officers, and postal workers hold public employment.
The term often appears in legal and policy contexts: public employment law, discrimination in public employment.
Public employees typically have civil service protections that private-sector workers lack.
- civil servantGovernment administration employee
- police officerLaw enforcement agent
- soldierArmed forces member
- teacherOne who instructs others
- bureaucratGovernment administrative official
government job · desk job · city hall · inspector · museum curator · nurse · archivist · sanitation worker · detective · ombudsman · conservationist · park ranger · tax collector · urban planner · school board · administrator · social worker · compliance officer
- public administrationadministrative law, government agencies, ministries, local government, county government
- state enterprisesstate enterprises, Amtrak, BBC, USPS, state ownership
- workplace equityequal opportunity, pay equity, fair hiring, fair treatment, workplace diversity
- administrative lawadjudication, judicial review, regulatory agency, natural justice, rulemaking
public employmentunemployment
Being without paid work
self-employment · entrepreneurship · private enterprise · joblessness · freelancing
public, publicly, publics, publication, publications, publish, publisher, publishers, publishing