Editing Civil service (section)

==== Spain ====
The [[Secretariat of State for the Civil Service|civil service]] in Spain (''función pública'') is usually considered to include all the employees at the different levels of the Spanish public administration: [[Government of Spain|central government]], [[Autonomous communities of Spain|autonomous communities]], as well as [[Municipalities of Spain|municipalities]]. There are three main categories of Spanish public positions: temporary political posts ("personal eventual"), which require a simple procedure for hiring and dismissal and is associated to top level executives and advisors, statutory permanent posts ("funcionarios de carrera"), which require a formal procedure for access that usually involves a competition among candidates and whose tenants are subject to a special statutory relationship of work with their employers, and non statutory permanent posts ("personal laboral"), which also require a formal procedure for entry similar to the procedure required for the "funcionarios de carrera", but whose tenants are subject to normal working conditions and laws. Competitions differ notably among the state, the 17 autonomous communities and the city councils, and the "funcionarios de carrera" and "personal laboral" examinations vary in difficulty from one location to another.

As of 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seap.minhap.gob.es/dms/es/publicaciones/centro_de_publicaciones_de_la_sgt/Periodicas/parrafo/Boletin_Estadis_Personal/BE_ENE2013.pdf|title=Portales SEAT y SEFP:: Secretaría de Estado para las Administraciones Territoriales :: Secretaría de Estado de Función Pública|website=www.seap.minhap.gob.es|access-date=2015-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621021442/http://www.seap.minhap.gob.es/dms/es/publicaciones/centro_de_publicaciones_de_la_sgt/Periodicas/parrafo/Boletin_Estadis_Personal/BE_ENE2013.pdf|archive-date=2015-06-21|url-status=dead}}</ref> there were 2.6 million public employees in Spain, of which 571,000 were civil servants and 2 million were non-civil servants.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:85%;"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Category !! Employee type!!Central Government!! Regional Government !! Municipal !! University!! Total
|-
| Police||Civil servants||147||25||||||172
|-
| Defence||Civil servants||124||||||||124
|-
| Health & Social||Civil servants||||321||||||321
|-
| ||other public employees||||170||||||170
|-
| Other||Civil servants||180||562||218||74||1034
|-
| ||other public employees||119||229||330||75||753
|-
| Total||Civil servants||451||908||218||74||1651
|-
| ||other public employees||119||399||330||75||923
|-
| ||Total||570||1307||548||149||2574
|}

More recent figures can be found at SEAT.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/dam/es/portal/funcionpublica/funcion-publica/ep-pp/empleo_publico/Triptico_2018_CASTELLANO.pdf.pdf |title=El empleo público en España |language=es |date= |website=www.seat.mpr.gob.es |access-date=2020-02-25 |archive-date=2020-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225150446/http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/dam/es/portal/funcionpublica/funcion-publica/ep-pp/empleo_publico/Triptico_2018_CASTELLANO.pdf.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In December 2011, the government of Rajoy announced that civil servants have to serve a minimum 37.5 working hours per week regardless of their place or kind of service.<ref name="politica.elpais.com">{{cite news |url=http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2011/12/30/actualidad/1325267082_718015.html |title=Los funcionarios trabajarán 37,5 horas y su sueldo sigue congelado &#124; Política |publisher=Politica.elpais.com |date=2011-12-30 |access-date=2014-02-18 |newspaper=El País |last1=Calvo |first1=Vera Gutiérrez |archive-date=2014-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823190526/http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2011/12/30/actualidad/1325267082_718015.html |url-status=live }}</ref>