How to deal with employees leaking company secrets?

Every company is made up of many employees. Generally, employees will sign labor contracts with the company before entering the company. Besides the labor contracts, they will also sign confidentiality agreements. The company pays special attention to confidentiality. I. How to deal with employees' disclosure of company secrets? In judicial remedies for infringed business secrets, the provisions of the Contract Law, Tort Law, Anti-unfair Competition Law and Criminal Law are generally invoked respectively to investigate the legal responsibility for infringing business secrets: (1) The infringement of business secrets is regarded as a breach of contract. If the parties to a contract illegally disclose, use or allow others to use business secrets according to the contract, they shall be investigated for their liability for breach of contract according to the contract law. (2) The infringement of trade secrets is regarded as a civil tort. If the trade secrets are illegally obtained, disclosed or used by others, the obligee may investigate the infringer's tort liability according to the Tort Law. The civil remedy method is generally to apply to the court for an injunction, which can be divided into temporary injunction and long-term injunction. Temporary injunction is generally issued in litigation, and long-term injunction is generally issued when the case is concluded and decided. The claim for damages can be used separately or simultaneously; (3) Infringement of trade secrets is regarded as unfair competition, and its legal responsibility is investigated according to the anti-unfair competition law, and its legal responsibility is generally criminal responsibility.

ii. characteristics of the company's trade secrets compared with other intellectual property rights (patent right, trademark right, copyright, etc.), trade secrets have the following characteristics: 1. non-publicity. First, the premise of trade secrets is that they are not known to the public, while other intellectual property rights are open, and even the patent rights are required to be open to a considerable extent. 2. Non-exclusivity Second, trade secrets are a relative right. The exclusivity of trade secrets is not absolute and exclusive. If other people obtain the trade secrets of the same content in a legal way, they have the same status as the first person. The owner of a trade secret can neither prevent the person who has developed and mastered the information before him from using or transferring the information, nor prevent the person who has developed and mastered the information after him from using or transferring the information. 3. Interest-related Third, it can enable operators to gain benefits, gain competitive advantages, or have potential commercial interests. 4. Term protection Fourth, the term of protection of trade secrets is not legal, and it depends on the confidentiality measures of the obligee and the disclosure of this secret by others. A technical secret may last for a long time because of the effective confidentiality measures of the right holder and the application value of the technology itself, far exceeding the period of protection of the patented technology.

iii. legal basis for infringing on the company's business secrets according to the provisions of article 1 of the anti-unfair competition law, the following acts are unfair competition acts that infringe on the business secrets of others: (1) the business secrets of the obligee obtained by theft, inducement, coercion or other improper means; (2) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets of the obligee obtained by the means mentioned in the preceding paragraph; (3) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the obligee and business secrets in their possession in violation of the agreement or the obligee's requirement to keep business secrets. A third person who knows or should know the illegal acts listed in the preceding paragraph, obtains, uses or discloses other people's business secrets, shall be regarded as infringing on business secrets.