What is public employment, and what kind of public employees and employees are there?
Staff Public employee It is all that worker or worker who Performs functions in the service of the general interest, with , with economic remuneration by the Public Administrations. They are classified in Career Officer, Interim Officer, Staff Member or Contingent Personnel.
Career staff
It is the one who, depending on a legal appointment, Work for a public administration by performing paid professional services of Permanent character.
It is grouped in Bodies and scales by the homogenous character of the functions it performs. These bodies and scales can be:
- of General character, since they exercise functions that can be developed in different departments.
- of Special character, for performing specialized functions within a single organization.
Find out what are the general and special bodies in the following link List of general and special bodies of the General Administration of the State.
In addition, the official staff is classified as groups (Group A and C), and within them, in subgroups (subgroups A1, A2, C1 and C2), depending on the QUALIFICATION REQUIRED To access:

For example, the “Higher Corps of Civil Administrators of the State” is of a general nature and its members belong to group A1, while the “Corps of Finance Technicians” is of a special nature, and its members belong to group A2.
Work staff
It is the one who, by virtue of written work contract, provides services paid by the Public Administrations. The workforce is also categorized into different professional groups, based on the qualification required to access.

For more information about the different types of employees and public employees and their characteristics, you can consult the “Consolidated Text of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee”.
In relation to the workforce, most of this group is subject to the “IV Single Collective Agreement for Labour Personnel of the General State Administration”, although there are other sectoral agreements.