There is no doubt that people on the outside and inside of your company are looking to access critical confidential information. Failure to protect this information can result in lost customers, regulatory fines, lawsuits, brand damage, and more.
HR professionals and other managers are privy to salaries, financial information, health insurance information, social security numbers, and other sensitive employee and customer data. What is it that needs to be kept confidential legally, and what should be included when putting a company policy in place?
In this course, veteran attorney Don Phin helps you gain an understanding of confidentiality by laying out the main areas to consider. He shares best practices that can help both managers and employees behave within legal and ethical parameters. Learn about non-disclosure and non-competition agreements, social media policies, cybersecurity, and more.
Confidential information includes internal secrets, customer and employee information, and much more. HR is tasked with creating policies, procedures, and practices to help maintain the confidentiality of this important information.
Just what is confidential information?