Requirements for the electronic signature of employment contracts

In the era of WhatsApp, apps and LinkedIn we live in, the question arises as to whether the electronic signature of the employment contracts equivalents to the traditional handwritten signature.

In order to answer that question, we must turn our sights to Regulation No 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, which lays down uniform rules on electronic signatures throughout the European Union, and Electronic Signature Law 910/2014, of December 19, 2003, the purpose of which is to provide legal transactions with mechanisms designed to guarantee the authorship and authenticity of documents signed electronically.

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