Production secrets: what if something will get loose

Production secrets: what if something will get loose
 Market competition - not just words. Sometimes associated with them invisible, but persistent struggle in which opponents do not disdain any means trying to learn trade secrets to each other. These secrets in the first place, include information about business connections - Partners and Clients. These include information about the ongoing negotiations and enter into a contract, the company plans to develop and produce new products, personal information about employees and customer base.

Many businesses, faced with unfair competition already secured themselves to include an employment contract signed by the employee in employment, the point about non-disclosure of trade secrets. At this point must be listed in detail the information that fall under this definition. This measure allows to attract breaching employee to legal, disciplinary or liability.

Responsibility for the disclosure of trade secrets occurs even in the case of accidental or inadvertent disclosure of them. A measure which will be applied to the offender, depends on purpose or by accident it happened. In addition, the degree of its severity may affect assessment of the financial damage that has been caused.

By trade secrets are not the constituent documents of the enterprise, including regulations, collective agreements, financial and tax reporting, document violations of the law committed now. Trade secrets is not the number of jobs and job openings. The definition of a trade secret by law and not subject to information about employee salaries, even though they themselves, and employers prefer not to talk about it. Even the introduction of the item in the contract of employment as of undisclosed information does not legalize privacy. In this case, if the employee is told about his salary, any sanctions should not be followed.

Prove the transfer of information to competitors by using the decryption phone call or official correspondence, including, and electronic communication channels. Circumstantial evidence of guilt is involvement in obtaining information of limited access.

By subscribing to a point of non-disclosure of trade secrets, you have no right to disclose it, even if you are no longer employed in the enterprise. Moreover, the statute of limitations is not limited. Otherwise, you will be spread all interventions as well as on any employee working in the state enterprises.

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