Employee Confidentiality and Assignment of Inventions Agreement

Confidentiality agreements usually allow the recipient to disclose confidential information if required to do so by court order or other legal process.

To the extent that the Company is not considered the first owner of the Intellectual Property Rights created by the Employee, the copyright and all related rights, title and interest in all such Company Intellectual Property is irrevocably assigned by the Employee to the Company in consideration of the Employment which

A confidentiality agreement is a written legal contract between an employer and an employee. The confidentiality agreement lays out binding terms and conditions that prohibit the employee from disclosing company confidential and proprietary information.

Insurance and benefit enrollment forms and claims information. Medical exam information. Workers' compensation records. FMLA leave certifications and medical documentation; leave information (e.g. dates)

Personnel information is confidential, and information in an employee's file, such as social security number, salary, health records, disciplinary actions and termination reason can't be discussed with other employees. Most of this information can't be discussed with potential employers who call for a reference.

To prevent employees from revealing sensitive information that could jeopardize your business, you might have them sign an employee confidentiality agreement. Businesses use employee confidentiality agreements to protect their innovative ideas, effective processes, unique products, or customer information.

Employees can void any non-competes that require a court outside of California to decide disputes. In other words, the company cannot enforce an employee's non-compete agreement in a state that allows these agreements. Employees are able to void contracts with illegal non-compete terms.

PIIA is the acronym for the most common name for these agreements, ''proprietary information and invention assignment'' agreements.The agreement also requires that the employee agree that whatever the employee creates, discovers, develops or invents while employed with the company is owned by the company.

Employee confidentiality agreements are generally one sided, unless you are also obtaining confidential information from the employee.Each state sets its own law regarding confidentiality agreement enforcement. Check with your state for more information.