Confidentiality of Employment Relationships

• Main Author: Radu Răzvan Popescu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2018-05-01
• Series: EIRP Proceedings
• Subjects: confidentiality clause; damages of interests; service secret; loyalty obligation
• Online Access: http://proceedings.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/eirp/article/view/1878/1939

Objectives Throughout the duration of the individual employment contract, both the employee and the employer, comes into possession of data and information that is private. Prior Work This kind of information that is confidential is practically divided from a legal nature perspective into three categories: confidential data under the loyalty obligation, data and information that are not disclosed due to the existence of a confidentiality clause and those data and information that, according to the special law, are classified as secret service or state secret. At the same time, the employer is under the obligation to keep the confidentiality of personal data and information that he she finds about his/her employees. Results the length of these periods in which parties have to maintain confidentiality is another issue that has given rise to disputes both in the literature and practice of the courts of justice. Value we think this article is an important step in the disclosure of the problem eraised by this two concepts.