When your job is getting paid by the State... You embrace the term labour because people who rest are thinkers.

Pharaoh to the Jews before Exodus:

Exodus 5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

God's answer to Labor:

Exodus 20:9-11 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Jesus answer to Labor:

Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light