“Now, many companies are already conducting internal flow of documents in electronic form, – have informed in a press-service of the Ministry of labor. – Personnel document management is one of the last areas where certain documents should be duplicated on paper”.
Employers can use their information system to work with electronic documents in the personnel record keeping, and can use the functionality of the portal “Work in Russia”, said the Ministry of labor.
At the conclusion of employment contracts, material liability agreements or student contracts in electronic form the law requires the use of advanced qualified electronic signatures. In other cases, allowed the use of a simple digital signature.