1, civil liability, the company may require employees to compensate for the losses caused to the company due to breach of contract or infringement.
2. Administrative responsibility. The administrative department for industry and commerce has the right to order the illegal act to stop according to law, and may impose a fine of 1 10,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan according to the circumstances.
3, criminal responsibility, for the parties who violate the confidentiality agreement and cause serious consequences, China's criminal law stipulates the crime of infringing trade secrets. The heavy losses in the crime of infringing trade secrets refer to the heavy economic losses, including the reduction of profits, the increase of losses, the bankruptcy and the disadvantage in competition. According to judicial practice, if the amount of direct economic losses caused to the obligee of trade secrets is more than 500,000 yuan, and the obligee goes bankrupt or causes other serious consequences, it shall be prosecuted.
The role of confidentiality agreement:
1. Prevent workers from revealing confidential matters such as business secrets and intellectual property rights of the employer, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the employer from infringement;
2. While completing the confidentiality agreement, the laborer also obtained reasonable economic compensation from the employer. So as to realize the consistency of rights and obligations.
3. Conducive to opposing unfair competition and maintaining social and economic stability;
4. It is conducive to maintaining the stability of the social employment environment.
Legal basis:
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 219 Whoever commits one of the following acts of infringing on trade secrets, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined:
(1) Obtaining the business secrets of the obligee by improper means such as theft, bribery, fraud, coercion or electronic intrusion;
(2) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets of the obligee obtained by means of the preceding paragraph;
(3) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets in their possession in violation of confidentiality obligations or the requirements of the obligee to keep business secrets.
In the acts listed in the preceding paragraph, anyone who knowingly obtains, discloses, uses or allows others to use the trade secret shall be regarded as infringing on the theory of trade secret.
The obligee mentioned in this article refers to the owner of the business secret and the user of the business secret with the permission of the owner.