Electronic employment contracts

Programme

General provisions and the legal framework of electronic employment contracts

• Introduction to the concept of the electronic employment contract (EEC)
• The regulatory framework: the provisions of the Labour Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan concerning EECs
• The history of the transition to electronic employment contracts
• Advantages and disadvantages of EECs compared with paper contracts
• The mandatory condition for concluding an employment contract (written form)

Practical aspects of working with the hr.enbek.kz portal

• Registering the employer on the Enbek Resurstary portal (hr.enbek.kz)
• Confirming enterprise details using a digital signature
• Getting to know the employer's personal account: structure and functionality
• Tools for managing employment contracts
• Working with electronic employment record books

The process of concluding an electronic employment contract.

• Creating a draft electronic employment contract in the personal account
• Mandatory sections and information included in an EEC (place of work, position, start date, pay terms, work and rest arrangements, rights and obligations of the parties)
• Procedure for signing the EEC by the employee and employer using a digital signature
• Availability of information on concluded EECs in the employee's personal account on the eGov.kz portal

Rights and obligations of the parties when working with EECs

• Employees' rights: access to information about their EEC, data protection
• Employers' rights: the ability to create and manage EECs, control over compliance with labour legislation
• Obligations of the parties in concluding and performing an EEC
• Procedure for amending and terminating an electronic employment contract

Integration of EECs with other state systems and development prospects

• The link between the hr.enbek.kz portal and other state information systems (for example, eGov.kz)
• Analysis of EEC usage statistics
• Changes and additions to legislation related to the digitalisation of employment relations
• Answers to participants' questions, discussion