<div dir="ltr"><div>On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 19:46, António Madeira via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Although an employment centre is not an office that governs, like
Tom Pfeifer wrote, (nevertheless we could argue they govern/regulate
the unemployed and the work market)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That depends how you define government. Is the department that collects/</div><div>enforces income tax government or not? I'd say it is, not just because it acts</div><div> to enforce and not just because without the monies it collects the government</div><div>could not operate. If employing civil servants to take money from people is</div><div>government then so is employing civil servants to give money to the</div><div>unemployed.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> it operates very differently
from an employment agency (the difference in the name is not
incidental)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The day I can claim unemployment benefits from employment agencies</div><div>is the day I look very carefully at which of them is going to give me</div><div>the most money before I choose to sign up with one.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> and I think that should be stated or even differentiated
in the wiki.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we got deflected by considering Jobcentres (or whatever they're</div><div>called elsewhere) to be employment agencies. That is only part of</div><div>what they do. Nevertheless, office=government +</div><div>government=employment_agency may be as close as we're going to get</div><div> without many weeks of arguments on the list.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>