Legal level:
Copying company documents before leaving the company violates the Labor Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and other relevant laws and regulations. According to the provisions of the labor law, employees should return the company's property, including documents and materials, when they leave their jobs. The criminal law also has clear provisions on theft. Copying company documents before leaving the company can be regarded as stealing company property, which constitutes a crime.
The company shall take legal measures according to law, report the case to the public security organ, and cooperate with relevant departments to investigate and collect evidence. If it does constitute a crime, the employee who left the company can be investigated for criminal responsibility.
Confidentiality dimension:
Company documents usually contain important business secrets, customer information, technical data and other sensitive information. Copying company documents by resigned employees may lead to the disclosure of company business secrets, which will bring serious economic losses and reputation risks to the company.
The company should take immediate measures, including suspending the system authority of resigned employees, changing passwords and strengthening the protection of sensitive information. To prevent further information leakage. At the same time, the company can consider taking legal measures to require the resigned employees to bear the liability for breach of contract and seek compensation.
Internal management level:
Copying company documents by former employees may expose loopholes and deficiencies in the company's internal management. The company should reflect and summarize this, strengthen the management and supervision of employee turnover process, and ensure that employees can return the company's property in accordance with the regulations when they leave.
The company can improve the resignation procedure, clearly stipulate the list of property that employees need to return before leaving the company, strengthen the monitoring and auditing of the employee's resignation process, and ensure the safety of the company's property.
Dimensions of employee education:
Copying company documents by former employees reflects employees' dishonest behavior and disrespect for company property. The company should educate employees through this incident and strengthen the cultivation of employees' legal awareness and professional ethics.
The company can organize relevant training, strengthen employees' understanding of intellectual property rights, business secrets and confidentiality obligations, and improve employees' legal awareness and professional ethics. At the same time, the company can also improve employees' sense of belonging and loyalty to the company by strengthening internal communication and employee care, and reduce the occurrence of similar incidents.
To sum up, it is illegal to copy company documents before leaving the company. The company should deal with it from the aspects of law, confidentiality, internal management and employee education to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the company and information security. At the same time, the company should also reflect and summarize this incident, improve the internal management system, improve the legal awareness and professional ethics of employees, and prevent similar incidents from happening again.