What is the duty of fidelity owed by a departing employee to their former employer?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Valley First Financial Services Ltd. v. Trach, 2003 BCSC 223 (CanLII):
In Alberts v. Mountjoy, supra, the court discussed the duty of fidelity owed by a departing employee: The ex-employee is not entitled to make “an unfair use” of information acquired in the course of his employment, not may be use confidential information so acquired to advance his own business at the expense of that of his former employer.
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