{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Location or Timezone Compliance Constraint",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
    ],
    "content": "# Location or Timezone Compliance Constraint\n\nThe company has no legal entity or provider that can issue an employment contract in the jurisdiction where the candidate resides.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `policy`\n- **Nature:** `rule`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- The jurisdictional barrier is entirely independent of the candidate's technical competence.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-014"
    ],
    "id": "mech.location_or_timezone_compliance_constraint",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "The company has no legal entity or provider that can issue an employment contract in the jurisdiction where the candidate resides.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.automated_filter_parser_threshold",
      "bar.recruiter_screening_call"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.rejection_naming_a_jurisdiction_or_work_eligibility_ground",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [],
        "observed_at": [
          "recruiter"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.rejection_within_minutes_of_application_submission",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "ingestion"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.generic_closer_alignment_rejection_template",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "recruiter"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "policy",
      "nature": "rule",
      "visibility": "observable",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "proven",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "Where the constraint actually sits",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "offer stage",
            "text": "Everything is agreed on our side. One question — you are resident where exactly?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "offer stage",
            "text": "Same country as in my application, no change.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "offer stage",
            "text": "Then I have bad news. We have no legal entity there and our provider does not cover it, so we cannot issue a contract regardless of the role.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A hard constraint that is knowable on day one and was checked at the offer. Nothing about the candidate is being assessed here."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.employer_policy",
        "sees": "The list of jurisdictions where an entity or an employment provider can issue a contract, and a candidate record showing a country outside it.",
        "reads": "A contract that cannot be signed, whatever the panel concluded. Adding a jurisdiction is a registration and tax decision, not a hiring one.",
        "does": "Holds the coverage list as written, and leaves any exception to a separate approval running on its own quarterly cycle."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "A residency answer that falls outside the approved country list — a check that can happen at the screen or at the offer paperwork.",
        "reads": "This process ends here regardless of the panel's recommendation, and the requisition returns to sourcing while time-to-fill keeps counting.",
        "does": "States the constraint at the screen, where the list is at hand, or delivers it at the offer stage in the wording available for it."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A posting marked remote, a process that runs normally, and a jurisdiction question arriving late — or a rejection minutes after submitting.",
        "reads": "Either the location was disqualifying from the start, or something about the profile was. Nothing in the message separates the two.",
        "does": "Records the stage at which the question was asked, and asks about entity coverage before the next remote process rather than after it."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.public_policy_and_industry_standards",
        "sees": "Employment law and tax registration in each jurisdiction, and the conditions under which a cross-border employment relationship can exist at all.",
        "reads": "A settled boundary, working as written. Nothing in it says at which point in a hiring process the boundary has to be disclosed.",
        "does": "Sets the rule and the licensed intermediary arrangements that can carry an employment relationship across it, on a legislative cycle no single process can wait for."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "The jurisdictional barrier is entirely independent of the candidate's technical competence."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "employer-policy": "medium",
      "recruiter": "low",
      "candidate": "low",
      "public-policy": "low"
    }
  }
}