{"id":79069,"date":"2022-02-24T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=79069"},"modified":"2022-02-24T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:28:03","slug":"metaverse-vs-employment-law-the-reality-of-the-virtual-workplace-beoiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/02\/24\/metaverse-vs-employment-law-the-reality-of-the-virtual-workplace-beoiley\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaverse vs. employment law: The reality of the virtual workplace [Beoiley]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/02\/metaverse-vs-employment-law-the-reality-of-the-virtual-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Metaverse vs. employment law: The reality of the virtual workplace<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from arstechnica.com by Kate Beoiley<br \/>\n<em>It is unclear how employee protections apply in the universal digital realm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When it comes to employment laws, however, it is unclear what rules of engagement apply in a universal digital realm. What counts as harassment in the metaverse? Can an avatar be discriminated against, or worse? Will national legislation protect employees or does working in the metaverse require a new rule book altogether?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Lack of legal framework<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">But the metaverse takes hybrid working a step further and brings with it a host of thorny employment law issues. These range from practical challenges, such as how employees are paid, to more philosophical ones, like whether avatars have a legal identity. \u201cThe legal conundrums are about as diverse as the possibilities of the metaverse itself,\u201d says Jonathan Newman, managing associate at law firm Simmons &amp; Simmons.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metaverse vs. employment law: The reality of the virtual workplace &#8212; from arstechnica.com by Kate Beoiley It is unclear how employee protections apply in the universal digital realm. Excerpt: When it comes to employment laws, however, it is unclear what rules of engagement apply in a universal digital realm. What counts as harassment in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,287,816,37,35,178,95,825,285,309,201,38,321,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-europe","category-facebook","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-global-globalization","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-platforms","category-policy","category-uk","category-united-states","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79071,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79069\/revisions\/79071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}