The legal status of the governmental employee : a comparative study

Abstract

The main conclusions of this survey may he briefly re-stated thus: first, restrictions on conduct appear in a wide range of employment, public and private, and the justification for these is the public interest, ascertainable by reference to the duties involved; second, there seem to be no valid reasons, legal or political, why the government employee should be denied rights against the government as his employer, enforceable either in the ordinary courts or otherwise; and finally, there are strong grounds for asserting' that government employment is not, as such, sui generis and invariably subject to fundamentally different considerations from those arising in private employment.