QUESTION
Can I sue a former employee for taking confidential information from the company?
Asked on Jun 25th, 2014 on Employment Contracts - California
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The employee took paperwork with clients personal information. These clients are form a government contract that requires clients' information to be kept completely confidential. The employee wrote and signed a statement stating that he had returned all documents, however we just learned he kept some documents that contain this confidential information. What legal actin can we take?
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Hi Sandra,
You can certainly file a lawsuit seeking an order that your former employee return the documents that he has. I would recommend that you first have an attorney send the former employee a demand letter with a strict deadline to comply and that you follow up with the lawsuit if the documents aren't timely returned.
If you are forced to file a lawsuit it is likely that you could obtain an order fairly quickly requiring the employee to return the paperwork.
Thanks,Jon
Answered on Jun 26th, 2014 at 11:31 AM