An employment confidentiality agreement typically takes place between an employer and employee during the time of employment. By it, an employee agrees not to divulge confidential information about clients, business practices or products to the media, industry competition. This strict confidentiality also includes publications and lectures produced by the former employee who signs the agreement. The employee confidentiality agreement also includes government officials and agencies, assuming that the confidential information is legal. The agreement may also be included into an employee's severance package, which stipulates that he cannot share insider trade secrets if he goes to work for a competitor of the business who laid him off. Most employee confidentiality agreements are unilateral, applying only to the employee, and likely his immediate family and legal counsel.