HR & workforce

Employee onboarding and right-to-work checks

Work authorisation and licences are attestations from bodies that already hold the record. Request them and you get verified status with validity dates attached, so an expired licence fails at verification rather than at audit. The contract is then signed with a qualified signature tied to the identity you just verified.

The problem

What teams do today

Onboarding a hire means chasing documents. Proof of work authorisation, a professional licence for regulated roles, a signed contract. Each one shows up as an emailed scan that somebody in HR glances at and files. It is slow, the evidence is thin, and in regulated sectors an expired licence nobody rechecked is a genuine liability.

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Onboarding evidence that is verified rather than glanced at
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Expired licences caught at verification, not at audit
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A contract signature tied to a verified identity, not an email address
How it works

Three steps with Authbound

  1. Step 01

    Verify work authorisation

    Request the attestation and receive verified status with its validity period.

  2. Step 02

    Check role licences

    For regulated roles, request the professional licence credential and validate it against the issuing body.

  3. Step 03

    Sign the contract

    The new hire signs with a qualified signature bound to the identity verified moments earlier.

Rules in play

National employment and right-to-work law, eIDAS 2.0, GDPR

Live demo

We built Onward, a company that does not exist, to show this running inside a finished product. The wallet flow in it is the real SDK.

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Questions

What people ask

Does this cover non-EU nationals with work permits?
Where a member state issues residence or work permit attestations into the wallet, yes. Coverage varies by country and permit type, so keep the document route as a fallback.
Can we recheck a licence periodically?
Yes. Credentials carry validity periods and revocation status, so a scheduled recheck is an API call rather than another document chase.
Is a wallet-signed employment contract enforceable?
A qualified signature has the legal effect of a handwritten one under eIDAS across the EU, which puts it ahead of most e-signature tools used for employment contracts today.

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