Practice question · Numerical answer
How many categories of public employee does the Spanish system distinguish?
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- Career and interim civil servants are two of them.
- Career, interim, employment-law and eventual staff.
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4
Why
Four: career civil servants, interim civil servants, employment-law staff and eventual staff. They differ in the law that governs them, the security they hold and the route by which they arrive, and the differences matter far more than the shared label "public employee" suggests.
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