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  2. Government employees in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, government employees includes the U.S. federal civil service, employees of the state governments, and employees of local governments . Government employees are not necessarily the same as civil servants, as some jurisdictions specifically define which employees are civil servants; for example, it often excludes military ...

  3. Civil service - Wikipedia

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    Civil service. The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service official, also known as a public servant or public employee, is a person employed in the ...

  4. List of countries by public sector size - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by public sector size, calculated as the number of public sector employees as a percentage of the total workforce. Information is based mainly on data from the OECD and the ILO.

  5. United States federal civil service - Wikipedia

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    The United States federal civil service is the civilian workforce (i.e., non-elected and non-military public sector employees) of the United States federal government 's departments and agencies. The federal civil service was established in 1871 ( 5 U.S.C. § 2101 ). [1] U.S. state and local government entities often have comparable civil ...

  6. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

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    The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. [2] It represents 1.3 million [1] public sector employees and retirees, including health care workers, corrections officers, sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, [3] and childcare ...

  7. Public Employees Federation - Wikipedia

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    The Public Employees Federation (PEF) is an American union representing 50,000 professional, scientific, and technical public employees in the state of New York. The union is one of the largest local white-collar unions in the United States and is New York's second-largest state-employee union. [3]

  8. CalPERS - Wikipedia

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    calpers.ca.gov. The California Public Employees' Retirement System ( CalPERS) is an agency in the California executive branch that "manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.5 million California public employees, retirees, and their families". [1] [3] In fiscal year 2020–21, CalPERS paid over $27.4 billion in retirement benefits, [4 ...

  9. Janus v. AFSCME - Wikipedia

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    Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, No. 16-1466, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), abbreviated Janus v. AFSCME, is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on US labor law, concerning the power of labor unions to collect fees from non-union members. Under the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which applies to the ...