Tom Trusty was a manager for StuffMart. As a manager, he learned confidential in
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Question
Tom Trusty was a manager for StuffMart. As a manager, he learned confidential information and knew that if this information got into the hands of competitors or the general public, StuffMart could suffer great business losses. Tom was, in his opinion, wrongfully fired by Stuff Mart. Consequently, he believes he has no obligation to keep any information he acquired with them as confidential. StuffMart claims that Tom is under a continuing duty to keep confidential information secret, even though he is no longer with the company. Who is right? Why?
Explanation / Answer
StuffMart is right. Certain companies has a clause in their agreement with the employee that although the employee leaves the company for whatever reason, the employee is not supposed to disclose the confidential information maintain with the company for a certain period of time ( For Amazon it is 6 months). Unde this condition, Tom is not supposed to divulge any company secret to anybody or he can be sued, if the company suffers loss.