Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach

Constitutional Rights

Public employees have a broad array of constitutional protections that differentiate public employment from employment in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Public sector employees' rights and privileges to work are to some extent protected by a broad umbrella of laws that either prohibit a government activity or create an individual right. Many of the constitutional protections afforded to public sector employees were originally enacted to protect free citizens from arbitrary government action in the areas of privacy, expression, association, contracts, and property. Because public sector employees work for the government, the protections are extended to them by operation of the employment relationship.

Many of the rights ...