The company I worked at terminated me about a month ago. Today, they sent me an document to sign called a “Confidentiality and Proprietary Rights Agreement”.
For a little context, I was fired supposedly for “not meeting cleaning standards” but the termination also happened to come right after a management change so… you know. I was an at-will employee after all. So I submitted an application for unemployment.
Then a month later I receive this contract to sign. The section most concerning to me is as follows:
“The Employee understands that the above list is not exhaustive, and that Confidential Information also includes other information that is marked or otherwise identified as confidential or proprietary, or that would otherwise appear to a reasonable person to be confidential or proprietary in the context and circumstances in which the information is known or used.”
Do I have right to be concerned? Or is this a standard post-termination agreement? Also, do I really have any incentive to sign at all?