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Employee Rights in the Public Sector

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Civil service; Public employees; Public servant; Public service

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This entry will provide a comprehensive survey of the rights of public employees in the United States through an interpretation of US Court rulings. During the twentieth century, the US Judiciary dramatically shaped the balance between supervisory and employee rights. Each case analysis will evaluate whether the Court’s majority expanded or restricted the scope of employee rights in the public sector. The entry will not only provide a chronological evolution of landmark court cases over the past 125 years but an analysis of the legal rationale of each decision in several key areas of employment law. Such areas as due process, First Amendment rights of free speech and expression, privacy rights, equal protection, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Fourth Amendment search and seizure law. Within each legal issue area, the prevailing legal doctrine or standard will be summarized and then explained further...

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  1. Department of Political Science and Sociology, Murray State University, 102 Curris Center, Murray, KY, 42071, USA

    Paul Douglas Foote

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Foote, P.D. (2017). Employee Rights in the Public Sector. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_534-1

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