Sartatavičius, Paulius

The aim of this article is to analize the legal issues arising out of implementation of the employee‘s duty of confidentiality. The main goals of the article are: - To reveal the concept of the obligation of confidentiality and trade secret; - To discuss employee‘s disciplinary responsibility for maintaining the obligation of confidentiality; - To discuss the differences between confidentiality and non-competition obligations and the issues related to their application; - To discuss the employee's pecuniary liability for the breach of confidentiality obligation.

This article discusses the problematic aspects relating to the employee privacy in his workplace and its limits reacting to employer‘s interests. It contains analysis of National, European and transatlantic legislation of privacy in the workplace and concentrates on the electronic privacy (e-mails, communications, etc.). The article is based on legal acts and judgements of the Supreme court of Lithuania, European Court of Human Rights and other countries courts judgements in order to provide the legislative execution practice as well as reveal the problems in this field of labour law.