Businesses value petty employee (9)
I believe the answer is:
jobsworth
'petty employee' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'businesses value' is the wordplay.
'businesses' becomes 'jobs' (job is a kind of business).
'value' becomes 'worth' (I've seen this before).
'jobs'+'worth'='JOBSWORTH'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for jobsworth that I've seen before include "Official who upholds petty rules" , "A stickler for rules" , "Petty rules upholder" , "Petty bureaucrat" .)