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vr.wm-org-005 · wm-org-005-employment

Represent one governed, jurisdiction-qualified employment relationship between a worker party and an employing party, including identity, classification evidence, terms, assignment realization, continuity, separation, disagreement and provenance without depending on storage or interface format.

World Models Society, people and institutions SOC.ORG.EMP
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

7 bundles · 16 layers · 32 findings · 96 questions

Relationship identity, parties and authority Identifies the employment relationship and the parties and authorities around it.

Relationship master identity

Stable identity, aliases, source systems and duplicate or successor handling.

Authoritative relationship identifier and master system

The stable identifier, issuer, namespace, master system, status and typed aliases for one employment relationship.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for authoritative relationship identifier and master system? identity
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes authoritative relationship identifier and master system, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may authoritative relationship identifier and master system be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Duplicate, merge, split, transfer and successor lineage

Rules and evidence that reconcile duplicates or create successors without erasing cited relationship identities.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for duplicate, merge, split, transfer and successor lineage? lifecycle
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes duplicate, merge, split, transfer and successor lineage, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may duplicate, merge, split, transfer and successor lineage be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Party topology and authority

Worker, employer and other party roles, their effective intervals and authority sources.

Worker and employing party bindings

Typed references to worker and employing party with asserted and effective role intervals and identity provenance.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for worker and employing party bindings? relationship
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes worker and employing party bindings, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may worker and employing party bindings be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Agency, host, client, paymaster, platform and authority roles

Allows multi-party work without treating every operational or payment party as the legal employer.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for agency, host, client, paymaster, platform and authority roles? authority
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes agency, host, client, paymaster, platform and authority roles, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may agency, host, client, paymaster, platform and authority roles be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation
Legal classification, jurisdiction and recognition Separates evidence, statistical classifications, party assertions and legally effective determinations.

Basis, jurisdiction and instruments

The asserted basis, applicable territory, purpose and governing instruments.

Contractual, statutory, factual and appointment basis

References the instrument or facts said to create employment and records who asserts that basis.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for contractual, statutory, factual and appointment basis? authority
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes contractual, statutory, factual and appointment basis, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may contractual, statutory, factual and appointment basis be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Jurisdiction, scope, applicable law and collective instruments

Pins territorial, personal and subject scope plus applicable legal, collective, policy and ratification profiles.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for jurisdiction, scope, applicable law and collective instruments? constraint
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes jurisdiction, scope, applicable law and collective instruments, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may jurisdiction, scope, applicable law and collective instruments be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Status classification and indicators

Records purpose-qualified categories and the evidence used for them.

Employee, worker, dependent-contractor and self-employed assertions

Parallel party, statistical, administrative and legal status assertions with scheme, purpose, time and confidence.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for employee, worker, dependent-contractor and self-employed assertions? classification
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes employee, worker, dependent-contractor and self-employed assertions, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may employee, worker, dependent-contractor and self-employed assertions be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Control, dependence, remuneration, risk and integration indicators

Observable indicators and counter-indicators with method, source and applicability, never a label-only conclusion.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for control, dependence, remuneration, risk and integration indicators? evidence
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes control, dependence, remuneration, risk and integration indicators, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may control, dependence, remuneration, risk and integration indicators be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Determination, dispute and recognition

Recognition criteria, competent determinations, competing assertions and correction.

Competent status determination, scope and effect

Authority, decision reference, legal basis, effective period, appeal state and exact purposes for which a determination controls.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for competent status determination, scope and effect? decision
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes competent status determination, scope and effect, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may competent status determination, scope and effect be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Misclassification dispute, appeal and retroactive correction

Contested status, claims, decisions, remedies and bitemporal corrections while prior assertions remain visible.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for misclassification dispute, appeal and retroactive correction? validation
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes misclassification dispute, appeal and retroactive correction, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may misclassification dispute, appeal and retroactive correction be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation
Commencement, terms and working context Captures when the relationship begins and which external terms and work-context assertions apply.

Commencement, probation and time

Agreed, recorded, effective and recognized beginning and probation facts.

Agreement, appointment, start and antecedent service

Creation basis, agreed and actual start, credited prior service, seniority anchor and evidence references.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for agreement, appointment, start and antecedent service? temporal
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes agreement, appointment, start and antecedent service, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may agreement, appointment, start and antecedent service be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Probation, trial, confirmation and rescission

Probation basis, limits, extensions, outcome and relationship effect without confusing probation with employment identity.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for probation, trial, confirmation and rescission? lifecycle
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes probation, trial, confirmation and rescission, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may probation, trial, confirmation and rescission be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Term bindings and precedence

Versioned references to individual, collective, statutory and policy terms.

Duration, renewal, notice and precedence

Open-ended or fixed duration, end condition, renewal, notice method and precedence among applicable term sources.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for duration, renewal, notice and precedence? constraint
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes duration, renewal, notice and precedence, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may duration, renewal, notice and precedence be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Remuneration, benefit, training and expense references

Bindings to compensation, benefit, training and reimbursable-expense masters with effective time and disclosure class.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for remuneration, benefit, training and expense references? relationship
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes remuneration, benefit, training and expense references, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may remuneration, benefit, training and expense references be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Working time, place and pattern

Capacity and location context that qualifies the relationship without replacing schedules or attendance.

Capacity, working-time pattern, overtime and predictability

Contracted capacity, standard pattern, predictability, reference hours and applicable overtime or minimum-notice rules.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for capacity, working-time pattern, overtime and predictability? measurement
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes capacity, working-time pattern, overtime and predictability, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may capacity, working-time pattern, overtime and predictability be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Workplace, remote, mobile and cross-border context

Primary and permitted places, remote or mobile mode, host territory, travel expectation and jurisdiction implications by reference.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for workplace, remote, mobile and cross-border context? spatial
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes workplace, remote, mobile and cross-border context, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may workplace, remote, mobile and cross-border context be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation
Role, assignment and occupation binding Connects employment to positions, assignments, occupations and skills without importing their lifecycles.

Position, role and assignment

Time-qualified realization links to externally mastered organizational work records.

Position, unit, role and reporting references

References formal positions, organizational units, role concepts and reporting structures without copying them into employment.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for position, unit, role and reporting references? relationship
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes position, unit, role and reporting references, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may position, unit, role and reporting references be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Assignment realization, validity and concurrency

Links one employment relationship to concurrent or sequential WM-ORG-016 assignments and records link validity only.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for assignment realization, validity and concurrency? composition
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes assignment realization, validity and concurrency, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may assignment realization, validity and concurrency be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Job, occupation and skill context

Separates the concrete job from reusable occupation and skill concepts.

Job, task, duty and occupation-classification reference

Binds current or historic job and assignment references to versioned ISCO, ESCO or local occupation concepts.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for job, task, duty and occupation-classification reference? classification
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes job, task, duty and occupation-classification reference, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may job, task, duty and occupation-classification reference be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Required, used and developed skill references

Purpose-qualified links to skill concepts and evidence while qualifications and assessments remain external.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for required, used and developed skill references? relationship
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes required, used and developed skill references, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may required, used and developed skill references be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation
Lifecycle, continuity and separation Represents relationship state and change independently of assignment, payroll or access-system activity.

Status, continuity and succession

Current and historic relationship state, continuity and successor employer bindings.

Active, inactive, disputed and unknown relationship state

Time-qualified state assertion, source, confidence and validation that never derives state from one operational system alone.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for active, inactive, disputed and unknown relationship state? state
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes active, inactive, disputed and unknown relationship state, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may active, inactive, disputed and unknown relationship state be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Employer succession, transfer and service continuity

Predecessor and successor parties, authority, continuity decision, credited service and unchanged or changed term bindings.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for employer succession, transfer and service continuity? lifecycle
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes employer succession, transfer and service continuity, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may employer succession, transfer and service continuity be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Interruption, change and resumption

Relationship-level effects of leave, suspension, secondment and material amendment.

Leave, suspension, secondment and nonperformance effect

References the external event and records whether employment, service, pay, benefits, assignment and notice clocks continue or pause.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for leave, suspension, secondment and nonperformance effect? event
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes leave, suspension, secondment and nonperformance effect, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may leave, suspension, secondment and nonperformance effect be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Term amendment, consent, authority and effective change

The proposed and effective change, source instrument, affected bindings, party acknowledgements and dispute state.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for term amendment, consent, authority and effective change? process
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes term amendment, consent, authority and effective change, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may term amendment, consent, authority and effective change be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Separation and post-employment

End basis, procedure, contest and surviving bindings.

Resignation, expiry, dismissal, mutual end and other basis

Qualified separation basis, initiating party, decision or notice references, stated reason, effective time and uncertainty.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for resignation, expiry, dismissal, mutual end and other basis? lifecycle
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes resignation, expiry, dismissal, mutual end and other basis, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may resignation, expiry, dismissal, mutual end and other basis be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Notice, challenge, remedy and surviving-obligation references

Notice compliance, appeal, reinstatement or compensation outcome and surviving confidentiality or other obligation bindings.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for notice, challenge, remedy and surviving-obligation references? decision
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes notice, challenge, remedy and surviving-obligation references, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may notice, challenge, remedy and surviving-obligation references be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation
Assertions, evidence, privacy and trust Keeps both parties' assertions, authoritative determinations and minimum-disclosure access auditable.

Party assertions, evidence and quality

Attribution, acknowledgement, discrepancies and evidence quality for relationship facts.

Worker, employer, third-party and authority assertions

Parallel attributable statements with purpose, valid time, knowledge time, confidence, acknowledgement and contest status.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for worker, employer, third-party and authority assertions? provenance
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes worker, employer, third-party and authority assertions, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may worker, employer, third-party and authority assertions be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation

Evidence references, issuer, collection method, freshness, reliability, conflicts and explicit reconciliation outcome.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation? quality
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Privacy, access, retention and verification

Purpose-bound access, correction, retention and minimum employment verification.

Purpose, access, correction, portability and restriction

Field and artifact access by role and purpose, worker access, correction route, portability profile and lawful restrictions.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for purpose, access, correction, portability and restriction? access
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes purpose, access, correction, portability and restriction, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may purpose, access, correction, portability and restriction be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Retention, deletion, legal hold and minimal verification

Per-field retention and tombstone rules plus consent or authority bound verification of only necessary relationship facts.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for retention, deletion, legal hold and minimal verification? retention
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes retention, deletion, legal hold and minimal verification, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may retention, deletion, legal hold and minimal verification be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation
Interoperability, governance and agent operations Controls profiles, projections, autonomous checks and safe relationship change.

Profiles, projections and agent control

Versioned mappings and permissioned agent actions.

Jurisdiction, statistical, HR and linked-data profiles

Pinned source and target versions, mapping scope, transformed or omitted values, validation and non-round-trip declarations.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for jurisdiction, statistical, hr and linked-data profiles? interoperability
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes jurisdiction, statistical, hr and linked-data profiles, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may jurisdiction, statistical, hr and linked-data profiles be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Agent operation authority, validation and audit

Allowed read, append, reconcile, propose, confirm and forbidden actions with preconditions, effects, rollback and audit evidence.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for agent operation authority, validation and audit? security
  2. Which party, authority, source and evidence establishes agent operation authority, validation and audit, at what asserted, effective and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may agent operation authority, validation and audit be validated, contested, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Classifiers Filled

Family
World Models
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
relationship
Navigation path
NAV.SOC.ORG.EMP
Domain
SOC.ORG.EMP
Industry
Cross-industry
Tags
employmentsoc.org.emp
Also called
O3

What it is Filled

Owns employment relationship identity, party-role topology, asserted basis and jurisdiction, purpose-qualified classification assertions and determinations, effective term bindings, assignment realization links, relationship state, continuity and separation events, party assertions, evidence quality, privacy and interoperability projections while external systems own parties, positions, assignments, occupations, contracts, payroll, attendance, benefits, tax, social insurance, qualifications, recruitment, access grants and evidence objects.

In scope

  • Employment relationship identity, worker and employing-party bindings, multi-party roles, basis, jurisdiction, classification assertions, determinations and recognition indicators
  • Commencement, probation, term bindings, working-time and workplace context, position, assignment, occupation and skill references
  • Relationship state, continuity, interruption, succession, separation, disputes, evidence, privacy, retention, verification, provenance and exchange

Out of scope

  • Generic organizational membership and affiliation, which belong to WM-ORG-006 Membership
  • Person, organization, unit, position, occupation, assignment, contract, payroll, compensation, attendance, benefits, tax, social insurance, qualification, recruitment, performance and work-product master lifecycles
  • A universal legal definition of employee, worker or self-employment, or automatic authority for an agent to determine status, change terms, disclose sensitive data or end employment

Why it exists Filled

Represent one governed, jurisdiction-qualified employment relationship between a worker party and an employing party, including identity, classification evidence, terms, assignment realization, continuity, separation, disagreement and provenance without depending on storage or interface format.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • A relationship between a worker and an employer with a legal basis and jurisdiction, not a general membership.
  • Classification as employee, worker or contractor is a purpose-qualified determination with evidence.
  • Assignments, payroll and contracts are linked but owned by neighbouring models.
  • Continuity and separation events are recorded without rewriting earlier states.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Hire, dismiss or change terms of employment.
  • Determine employment status for legal purposes.
  • Disclose salary, health or disciplinary information beyond need.
  • Use protected characteristics in decisions about workers.
  • Monitor employees beyond lawful and proportionate limits.

Only with a human decision

  • Hiring and termination decisions.
  • Classification determinations with legal effect.
  • Disciplinary actions.

May

  • Record employment relationships and events from authoritative HR sources.
  • Answer verified employment status questions for authorized requesters.
  • Flag inconsistent classifications or overlapping relationships.
  • Prepare documents for review by HR.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Employment decides people's income and security, so errors carry high personal cost.
  • Misclassification can deprive workers of rights and protections.
  • Employee data is sensitive and the power imbalance limits real consent.

Who is affected

  • Workers and applicants
  • Employers and managers
  • Tax and social insurance authorities

Owners Filled

Steward

Dimension identity, owner, employment-record steward, worker-rights authority and namespace

Roles

Dimension owner
Own namespace, mastership, delegation, access, retention and federation rules.
Worker or worker-authorized steward
Attest worker-side facts, exercise access and correction rights, acknowledge changes and preserve contested assertions.
Employer or employing authority
Attest employer-side basis, terms, status events and statutory records within mandate.
HR or relationship registrar
Maintain identifiers, party bindings, effective terms, assignment links and lifecycle records without making unauthorized legal conclusions.
Competent status or labour authority
Determine status, scope, effective period, remedy and appeal effect within jurisdiction.
Worker representative or collective-bargaining steward
Maintain representative authority and collective-instrument bindings and support dispute evidence.
Privacy and access steward
Apply purpose limitation, minimum disclosure, access, correction, portability, retention and security rules.
Independent auditor
Review authority, changes, disclosures, corrections and provenance without rewriting party evidence.

Links to other meta-models Filled

composes

  • WM-ORG-016 Work Assignment - Represent assignments as typed external realizations of employment without importing their execution or lifecycle.

references

  • Person, Organization, Organizational Unit, Position, Occupation, Skill, Contract, Policy, Payroll, Benefit, Tax, Social Insurance, Qualification, Evidence and Access models - Connect governed employment context while retaining source ownership and independent lifecycle.

aligned

  • ILO Recommendation No. 198 - Qualify employment-recognition indicators, disguised relationships, party labels, determination and dispute principles.
  • ICSE-18 and ISCO-08 - Project statistical status and occupation classifications without granting them universal legal effect.
  • ESCO - Reference versioned multilingual occupation and skill concepts.
  • W3C ORG and PROV-O - Project qualified organization relationships, roles, intervals, assertions, derivation and revision while excluding generic membership from the Employment boundary.

neighbor

  • Membership - Employment is a work relationship with asserted legal or factual basis, terms and labour effects; generic belonging, affiliation and member standing are owned by WM-ORG-006.
  • Work Assignment - WM-ORG-016 owns assignment identity, scope, duties, execution and lifecycle; Employment owns only the typed, time-qualified link showing which assignments realize the relationship.
  • Position, Role and Occupation - A position can exist vacant, a role is a reusable concept and an occupation classifies similar jobs; none is an employment relationship or proves its legal status.
  • Contract, Policy, Law and Collective Agreement - Normative instruments retain independent identity, text, authority, version and lifecycle; Employment stores versioned applicability and precedence bindings.
  • Payroll, Compensation, Attendance, Benefits, Tax and Social Insurance - Transactions and accounts remain external evidence or consequences; their existence or absence alone never proves relationship identity, status or continuity.
  • Recruitment and Onboarding - Candidate selection and operational onboarding or offboarding are processes that may create or implement employment but do not own the relationship's continuing legal and evidential record.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Authoritative employment master-system identifier qualified by issuer and relationship namespace.
  • Governed globally resolvable employment relationship IRI with explicit worker and employing-party references.
  • Adopting-Dimension UUID or ULID when no authoritative external identifier exists.

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • An employment relationship names an employer, a worker, a legal basis, a jurisdiction, a start date and a state.
  • It is confused with a contractor engagement, a work assignment and a position.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • Register employment: Create or attest one employment relationship with stable identity, party bindings, asserted basis and explicit unknowns.
  • Assert or determine status: Record a purpose-qualified party assertion, statistical classification or competent legal determination without collapsing them.
  • Bind term version: Attach a versioned external term source with precedence, validity and party acknowledgement.
  • Link assignment realization: Link a WM-ORG-016 assignment that realizes the relationship without importing assignment execution.
  • Record commencement: Append agreed, actual and effective start facts plus probation and credited-service references.
  • Suspend or resume: Record relationship-level effect of leave, suspension, secondment or resumption.
  • Record employer succession: Create a predecessor or successor employer binding with a continuity decision and changed-term map.
  • Amend relationship: Append an authorized relationship revision and preserve party acknowledgements and disagreement.
  • Record separation: Record end basis, notice, reason, effective time, challenge state and surviving references.
  • Reconcile assertions: Compare party and authority assertions and append agreement, disagreement or unresolved reconciliation.
  • Issue minimal verification: Create a purpose-bound projection of necessary employment facts under consent or legal authority.
  • Project employment profile: Transform a validated revision into a pinned statistical, HR or linked-data profile with declared loss.

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Wrongful dismissal or pay errors from incorrect records.
  • Disclosure of sensitive employee data.
  • Discrimination through automated decisions.
  • Loss of statutory rights through misclassification.

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • HR Open Standards.
  • ILO International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08).
  • ISO 30414 human capital reporting.
  • W3C Verifiable Credentials for employment proofs.

Context of use required Filled

  • EU Directives 2019/1152 and 2008/104/EC and the GDPR provide European profiles and do not create universal global legal obligations.
  • ILO Convention No. 158 is applicable only where its ratification and implementation scope is verified; Recommendation No. 198 remains guidance for national policy.
  • ICSE-18 and ISCO-08 are statistical classifications and ESCO is a European semantic classification, not direct legal-status authorities.

Sources Filled

  1. Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198) - International Labour Organization
  2. International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-18) Manual - International Labour Organization
  3. Resolution concerning statistics on work relationships - International Labour Organization
  4. International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 - International Labour Organization
  5. The ESCO Classification - European Commission
  6. Directive (EU) 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions - European Union
  7. Directive 2008/104/EC on temporary agency work - European Union
  8. Termination of Employment Convention, 1982 (No. 158) - International Labour Organization
  9. The Organization Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
  10. PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
  11. General Data Protection Regulation - European Union
  12. Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps - Internet Engineering Task Force

Open questions

  • Develop jurisdiction-specific status, rights, termination, transfer, working-time, agency-work, platform-work and record-retention profiles.
  • Approve model identifiers and relation cardinalities for parties, positions, assignments, occupations, contracts, policies, payroll, attendance, benefits, tax, social insurance, qualifications, recruitment, evidence and access.
  • Create deterministic fixtures for duplicate relationships, concurrent employers, agency and host roles, status disputes, retroactive determinations, employer succession, separation challenges and minimum verification.
  • Validate certified statistical, HR, linked-data and legal-document projections with explicit information-loss and round-trip tests.
  • National and subnational labour-law, public-service, military, seafarer, domestic-work, child-work, platform-work, apprenticeship and collective-bargaining profiles require specialist treatment.
  • Contract, assignment, payroll, compensation, benefits, attendance, leave, tax, social insurance, qualification, recruitment and performance lifecycles remain in neighboring models.
  • Certified HR-schema, ICSE-18, ISCO-08, ESCO and jurisdictional crosswalks, conformance suites and rights-impact fixtures remain future work.

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification AGENTS.md Source Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

Built from: models/wm-org-005-employment/spec.yaml, ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/wm-org-005-employment.json