Sign Employment Contracts Online — Fast, Private, Legally Valid

Employment contracts mark the beginning of a professional relationship. They define your role, compensation, benefits, confidentiality obligations, non-compete clauses, and termination terms. Getting these documents signed quickly matters — delays in returning a signed employment contract can push back start dates, create uncertainty for both parties, and even risk losing a job offer entirely. Yet the traditional signing process demands printing the document, signing every page by hand, scanning the stack, and emailing the result. If you are relocating for a new position, you may not even have access to a printer.

SigPDF eliminates these obstacles. Open the employment contract PDF in the editor above, create your signature by drawing it with your mouse or finger, place it on the appropriate signature lines, add dates and initials, and download the completed document. The entire process takes under a minute. You can sign from your laptop at home, your phone on the commute, or your tablet at a hotel — wherever you are when the offer arrives.

Sensitive Salary and Compensation Data Stays Private

Employment contracts contain some of the most sensitive personal and financial information in existence: your salary, bonus structure, equity grants, retirement contributions, health insurance details, Social Security or tax ID numbers, and sometimes even the terms of a non-compete or non-solicitation clause that your current employer should never see. Uploading this document to a cloud-based signing platform means entrusting all of that data to a third-party company's servers, their employees, and their security posture.

SigPDF processes your employment contract entirely inside your browser using client-side JavaScript. The PDF file never leaves your device. No upload, no server-side storage, no third-party access. For HR departments handling confidential compensation data and employees protecting their personal information, this level of privacy is critical.

Legal Validity of Electronically Signed Employment Contracts

Electronic signatures on employment contracts are legally binding and enforceable in virtually every major jurisdiction:

• United States — ESIGN Act (2000): The ESIGN Act explicitly provides that electronic signatures on employment-related documents — including offer letters, employment agreements, and onboarding paperwork — carry the same legal weight as ink signatures.
• European Union — eIDAS Regulation (2014): A simple electronic signature such as one created with SigPDF cannot be denied legal effect solely because it is in electronic form. This covers employment contracts across all EU and EEA member states.
• UK, Canada, Australia: The Electronic Communications Act (UK), PIPEDA (Canada), and the Electronic Transactions Act (Australia) all recognize the validity of electronic signatures on employment agreements.

Types of Employment Documents You Can Sign

• Full-time and part-time employment contracts
• Independent contractor and freelance agreements
• Offer letters and acceptance confirmations
• Non-compete and non-solicitation agreements
• Confidentiality and NDA clauses within employment terms
• Employee handbook acknowledgment forms
• Commission and bonus structure agreements
• Termination and severance agreements

Print-Scan-Mail vs. SigPDF

The old way of signing an employment contract involves at least five steps: download the PDF, print it (often multiple pages), sign and initial every required page, scan the entire document back into a single PDF, and email it to HR. If your printer jams or you are traveling without access to a scanner, the delay compounds. Some candidates have lost job offers because they could not return the signed contract quickly enough.

SigPDF collapses those five steps into one: open, sign, download. No printer, no scanner, no delay. For HR teams sending out dozens of contracts during a hiring wave, the time savings are substantial. For candidates eager to accept an offer, the speed is a competitive advantage.

How to Sign an Employment Contract with SigPDF

1. Open your employment contract PDF in the editor above — drag and drop or click to browse
2. Create your signature by drawing, typing your name, or uploading a signature image
3. Click on each signature line throughout the contract to place your signature
4. Add dates, initials, and printed name where required
5. Download the signed employment contract — it is ready to send back to HR or the hiring manager