Public employment & welfare services
Employment and welfare agencies manage registrations, entitlements, conditionality and case histories. They need structured ways to signal status and outcomes to other systems without exposing full case files.
Pillar — Labor & Human Capital
← Back to pillarsEmployment, skills and social support, aligned at the message layer.
The Labor & Human Capital pillar covers employment services, social protection, training and related systems that support people’s economic participation. Interlayer focuses on how these systems exchange structured signals — not on operating a new labour platform or registry of individuals.
Core questions
How can employment, welfare and training systems share status, eligibility and outcome signals while keeping case files, payments and identities within existing institutions?
Interlayer’s role
Define and translate structured messages for placements, support decisions and programme reporting between labour, education and finance domains.
Constraints
No central record of individuals maintained by Interlayer, no hosted job-matching platform, and no delegated authority for eligibility or benefit decisions.
Where interoperability questions appear
Employment pathways, social protection and skills ecosystems.
Labour-market and human-capital initiatives often span multiple systems: public employment services, welfare and social protection, private employers, training providers and financial infrastructures. Interlayer helps align the messages between them, while leaving policy, funding and case management where they belong.
Employers & labour-market platforms
Employers and intermediaries hold recruitment, HR and payroll systems. They may need to emit structured placement, contract and hours-worked messages under agreed formats, without delegating control of employment relationships.
Training & skills providers
Education and training providers issue qualifications, skills attestations and completion records. Interoperability is often needed between these systems and employment or welfare services, without centralising learner identities.
Message patterns
Examples of non-custodial labor & human capital flows.
The examples below illustrate how Interlayer structures messages across labour and human capital systems. In each case, the aim is to make message exchanges auditable and neutral while avoiding new central platforms.
Pattern 1
Placement & outcome signalling- 1. An employment service records that an individual has been placed into a role.
- 2. Translator maps that placement into a neutral outcome message for welfare and programme systems.
- 3. Welfare or programme systems update their own records and, if applicable, adjust support flows.
- 4. Interlayer does not hold salary, case notes or full personal records — only the structured signal.
Pattern 2
Skills & credential interoperability- 1. A training provider issues a completion record or skills credential in its own system.
- 2. Translator defines a common message structure for that credential across programmes and employers.
- 3. Employers or employment services receive the signal and interpret it using their own rules.
- 4. Interlayer does not operate the credential registry; it standardises the messages that reference it.
Pattern 3
Cross-border labour & remittance flows- 1. Workers participate in employment schemes that involve multiple jurisdictions and financial infrastructures.
- 2. Translator structures the messages that link employment status, wage flows and remittances, aligned with finance and compliance requirements.
- 3. Banks, payment providers and welfare systems continue to operate under their own supervision and reporting rules.
- 4. Interlayer does not intermediate funds or create new cross-border worker databases.
Translator role in this pillar
A neutral interpreter for labour-market signals, not a job platform.
Interlayer does not host vacancies or CVs and does not operate as a recruitment service. Its role is to make the underlying signals — placements, status changes, skills, eligibility flags — understandable across systems that already exist.
Interpret
Analyse existing labour, welfare and training messages, including how they relate to legal obligations, privacy constraints and programme rules.
Translate
Define neutral, standards-aligned message structures and translation logic so employment, welfare, finance and training systems can exchange what they need to know without over-sharing.
Align
Ensure interoperability patterns can be explained to oversight bodies, social partners and individuals, and that decision-making remains with accountable institutions.
Assurance, social partners & governance
Labour and social protection systems are accountable to workers, social partners and public authorities. Any interoperability work must be demonstrably aligned with those responsibilities.
- • Translator artefacts can be reviewed by labour ministries, regulators or social partners.
- • Deployments favour environments controlled by public employment services or agreed operators.
- • Interlayer does not take on employer, agency or benefit-administration roles.
Typical starting points
- • Programme-level employment pathways that cross welfare and training systems.
- • Outcome signalling for labour-market pilots or public-interest schemes.
- • Cross-border labour support where payments and placements use different infrastructures.