Access to public sector employment

Table 2. Public sector employment

The private sector has not experienced sufficient growth, and in the public sector, the State has been forced to reduce the number of State institutions, thereby reducing public sector employment, with the result that workers have had to seek employment in the informal sector.

Minority communities' employment in the public sector is 55 per cent of the stipulated minimum level.

It has also considered the subject in terms of relevant dichotomies, namely, formal versus informal, self employment versus wage employment and private sector versus public sector employment, and includes an analysis of labour market legislation and organization.

There should be equal access to public sector employment across the various ethnic, linguistic and religious communities.

Equality in recruitment and employment practices All public sector agencies have established practices, procedures, and recruitment rules with regard to employment including that of women.

The employment of members of minority communities in the public sector remained at about half the stipulated level.

Employment of women in the public sector. The Committee noted that women's share of the public sector employees was only 21.4 per cent and that they were concentrated in the health and education ministries.

Private sector figures for minority employment are likely to be lower than the 9 per cent (6.2 per cent at decision making levels) in the public sector.

All Cameroonians have access to education, training and public sector employment, for example, albeit subject to the principle of regionalization.

She also asked whether any work had been undertaken to compare the low salaries in female dominated public sector employment like teaching and medicine with salaries in the male dominated parts of the public sector.

3. Policies in the employment sector

Public sector

Private sector as of public sector

Employment and public service

Information taken from An Inquiry Into the Status of Women Employment in Public Sector Organizations 2003 sponsored by the Asian Development Bank.

The action taken by the public authorities aims to make the private sector the engine of growth for investment, production and employment.

Women and employment in the service sector

Public sector procurement

a. Public sector

Public sector debt

High underemployment and public sector employment in the region have functioned as economic stabilizers and have partly helped to avert chronic procyclical unemployment.

Private sector wages as of public sector wages

(b) Indicators on informal sector and informal employment

56. Improving complementary partnerships among public authorities, the private sector and educational institutions, along with civil society initiatives, for the promotion of youth employment

Wage earners (public sector)

(ii) Public sector wages

(a) The public sector

Public private sector partnerships

Bilateral public sector debt

Multilateral public sector debt

This led to the creation in 1996 of the Public Employment Placement Enterprise in Australia, which now competes for business in a wide range of employment services against other private and community sector organizations.

There exists a detailed set of rules and regulations in the form of Civil Service Rules, governing all aspects of employment in the Public Sector.

Insofar as marital status of a woman being a factor in employment is concerned the public sector can be said to meet these criteria fully.

Lost wages will reduce consumption, causing additional job cuts, while factory closures will reduce investment, hitting employment in capital goods industries. Lost incomes will also drive down tax revenues, resulting in public sector employment cutbacks.

Hong Kong s civil servants are already the best paid in the world. Anyone seeking to compare a public service job with the private sector in negotiating an employment contract should simply seek work in the private sector rather than for the public good.

Women in the public sector

(b) Public sector management reform

World Employment Report 2004 2005 Employment, Productivity and Poverty Reduction, http www.ilo.org public english employment strat wer2004.htm.

The role of the informal sector in generating employment opportunities

Through the National Action Plan for Employment and the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion, the efforts for the elimination of exclusion of women from employment are continued both in the public and in the private sector.

The information on incomes collected in the National Employment Survey for the first quarter of 2004 indicates that the distribution of incomes among employees in the public sector is more favourable than in the private sector.

The private sector could draw resources away from the public sector.

Total public sector employment, which accounts for 30 per cent of all jobs in the Territory, was virtually at the same level as in fiscal year 2002.