竞业限制与企业商业秘密保护

知识经济时代，信息就是财富。雇员跳槽中带来的商业信息转移，会给原来的企业带来重大的商业损失。而劳动合同法使得员工跳槽的成本进一步降低。西方企业的成功实践告诉我们，中国企业在这一背景下，需要善用《劳动合同法》中的竞业限制条款，保护企业的商业秘密，维护市场公平竞争的秩序。

Employment Restriction and the Protection of Business Secrets

In the knowledge-based economy period, information is wealth. The former companies have to take the business loss because of the economy information transferring that brought by employers＇ job-hopping. Besides, law of labor contract reduces the cost of job-hopping in another way. The successful examples of west companies tell that Chinese companies should use the employment restriction clauses properly to protect their business secrets and keep a fairly-competed order in the market.