2.4. |
Return of Documents and other Materials |
On the earlier of the Leaving Date or Termination Date, the Employee shall hand over to the Company all documents of a confidential nature (and
copies thereof) belonging or relating to the Company or any other Group Company. In addition, the Employee shall return all property belonging to the Company or any other Group Company, including, but not limited to, files, calculations, books,
documents, notes, business plans and forecasts, computers, laptops, mobile phones, credit cards, and keys, etc. Furthermore, the Employee shall destroy on his own data processing equipment all electronically stored confidential data belonging to the
Company or a Group Company.
For the remainder of the Employment Relationship and thereafter the Employee shall keep strictly confidential and neither use for his own
purposes or that of others nor make known to any third person any trade or business secret of the Company or any Group Company. These include in particular, but not exhaustively any products, improvements, designs, processes, customers, methods of
distribution or methods of operation, sales, prices, profits, costs, contracts, suppliers, business prospects, business methods, techniques, research, trade secrets, or know-how or data obtained by the
Employee during the Employment Relationship, regardless of whether such information is confidential or not, except if such information is already publicly known and in the public domain.
The Employee may not make any statement to the media, as far as he is not authorized to do so by the Company.
2.6. |
Non-Competition and
Non-Solicitation |
The Parties agree that the
non-competition and the non-solicitation clause agreed in the Employment Agreement remains in full force and effect.
The Employee will support the Company or any other Group Company in any lawsuits, civil or public proceedings, inquiries, hearings or other
formal procedures, including, but not limited to, provision of testimonies or witnessing. After the Termination Date (or, if applicable, the Leaving Date), the Company or the respective Group Company pay adequate compensation for such services of
the Employee, if permissible by law.
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