Translation into English: a question

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Is the word "employer" a politically neutral one in English? If not, is there another word which is used by the left? In Swedish, there's a right/left divide in what word is used: there's the one which literally means "provider-of-work", and the one which means "buyer-of-work", reflecting obvious political differences.

I ask because I'm translating a political text into English, which is a bit different from translating fic...