Commitment of Public Employee Not to Disclose Secrets Of the Public Employment

Doi:https://doi.org/10.37940/JRLS.2023.4.2.5

Abstract

The heavenly messages, man-made laws, and general rules have agreed to consider keeping a secret as a moral and legal obligation, and any disclosure of these secrets is in cases other than those that necessitate a contrary act and that exposes the person to legal liability, and it is important that those in charge of jobs protect interests by protecting the secrets related to them. Disclosing job secret is a crime, so the legislator must confront it in order to preserve job secrets and not revealing them to those who are not legally authorized, and to put in place deterrent laws for violators due to the negative effects on society and the state.

In order to clarify the commitment of the public employee not to reveal the secrets of the public office, we have divided this study into three sections and a conclusion as follows:

In the first topic, we dealt with the concept of job secret and its types. In the second topic, the elements of the crime of disclosing job secrets and its legal basis. In the third topic, the effects of disclosing job secrets, including requirement being disciplinary administrative liability, requirement being civil liability, and requirement being criminal liability. Finally, and in conclusion, we show the most important findings and recommendations of the study.