Employees who reveal secrets will be punished by reducing dividends and demoting their posts economically. If the circumstances are minor, they will be punished by the company and bear certain liability for compensation.
Design, strategy, product formula, manufacturing technology, manufacturing method, management know-how, customer list, production and marketing strategy, pre-tender estimate in bidding, bidding content and other information. "Laborers and employers may conclude confidentiality agreements on matters involving trade secrets in their work. If an employee violates the confidentiality agreement, the employer can hold the employee accountable, and the customer list and other information can be included in the category of trade secrets.
When employees disclose company secrets and apply for companies, the actual business secrets have the following characteristics:
1, closed to the public.
The premise of trade secrets is that they are not known to the public, so the information disclosed in the company does not belong to trade secrets.
2. Others can master it later.
Trade secrets can make a company unique now, but as long as others have mastered them in the future, that is, others have obtained the trade secrets of the same content through legal means, then it cannot be said that the other party has violated the trade secrets, and they are actually in the same position as the first person.
3. Only competition can gain benefits.
The business secrets held by the company can make the company gain benefits, gain competitive advantages, or have potential business interests.
4. There is no clear protection period.
Trade secrets are different from patents, and there is no clear term of protection in law. If the person who owns the technical secret has effective security measures, and the application value of the technology itself will last for a long time.