non-disclosure-agreementI have a new employee joining the company, (my first employee!)
As I have other agreements in place with other companies, I will need the person to sign an Non Disclosure Agreement.
Are there any standard NDA’s that people use when employees join a company?
You need an employment agreement that the employee signs. This is a standard practice for companies in the US.
The employment agreements generally covers confidentiality and ownership of intellectual property among other things. If you Google “employment agreement”, you’ll find lots of examples online.
A corporate lawyer will have a general NDA form for cheap, shouldn’t cost more than 30 minutes of their time, which even for a good lawyer should only be $200.
You will be able to use this NDA in the future multiple times, it is definitely worth it to have a legitimate lawyer create it.
That said, why even get an NDA if you cannot afford one, since enforcing the NDA will cost thousands if not more, and months if not years in order to recoup any proven losses.
Hire trustworthy employees, use obscurity with your trade secrets or sensitive proprietary material; even with an NDA in place.
Non-Disclosure Agreements or Confidentiality Agreements are one part of the agreement between you and your new employee.
From a quick Google, and I have no affiliation with this site at all, I found this template https://media.everynda.com/pdf/sample-non-disclosure-agreement-template.pdf
There is a lot of information on that site, including:
The basic elements of these contracts are normally present in most boilerplate forms. However, you still want to check your forms for them as people tend to overlook the obvious. These fields include:
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