Dragan Zlatanović, LLM

PROTECTION OF BUSINESS SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL DATA IN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP ACCORDING TO NEW CROATIAN LABOUR LAW

Summary

Business secret is a formula, business practice, "know-how" or some other information that helps business entities in their competition. Business secret is the element of business conduct that influences on certain business venture when all other recources are equivalent, that is the special knowledge that enables one business entity to be in front of the others. The exact definition of business secret often varies from one law system to another. However, it may be concluded there are some common characteristics. Thus, we may conclude that most of law systems agree that business secret is such information which is not publicly known, which provides economic benefit to the information holder in a certain way and which secrecy the information holder try to keep in reasonable measure. In this work, the author analyzes the aspects of business secret in context of employment relationship with referance to the scope of rights and obligations of employees concerning employer's business secret they find out within their activities according to the employment contract.

Keywords: business secret, confidential data, employment relationship, employment contract, theater, and protection of business secret in theatrical activity.