Protecting Trade Secrets: Iron-Clad Strategies for Employee Onboarding and Offboarding
Onboarding Strategies:
- Creating clear communication of the company’s trade secret policies and the legal implications of breaches.
- Design mandatory training sessions focused on data security and confidentiality.
- Drafting confidentiality agreements that reinforce the employee’s commitment to protecting sensitive information.
Offboarding Strategies:
- How to effective exit interview to solidify departing employee of their confidentiality obligations.
- Determine when and best approach for revoking access to all company systems and retrieving company-issued devices.
- How to ensure the return or destruction of any physical or digital copies of sensitive information.
- Continuous monitoring the former employee’s activities post-departure to detect any potential data breaches.
Legal Considerations and Enforcement:
- Discuss consequences of trade secret violations in employment contracts and company policies.
- How to take swift and decisive action against any breaches
James Gale
Ronald Sia Deputy GC
Ron serves as Deputy General Counsel - Technology and Brand, and Enterprise Risk and Sustainability Compliance Officer for SimpliSafe. Prior to joining SimpliSafe, he spent over a decade in a variety of in house legal roles at P&G / Gillette in Cincinnati and Boston, with his last role as Global Lead Commercial Counsel for the Gillette business unit. Ron studied Chemical Engineering and Economics at Tufts University and received his JD from UNH School of Law.