The current paper deals with the legal basis for the employee's obligation to maintain job secrets. The disclosure of job secrets is an act and criminal behavior under the provisions of the Iraqi Penal Code. The commitment to keep job’s secrets lies with the employee, or the person assigned to a public service, so they must keep all job secrets that they become aware of by virtue of their work, whether these secrets are documented in writing or electronically, in order to ensure the integrity of job work, and preventing harm to public social interests. An employee who gives information or documents that are not authorized to be published, and gives them to the press, his work is considered a violation of his job duty, which requires him to conceal job secrets. The criminal legislator focused his attention on two things, the first one represents maintaining the integrity of the entity of the state and society, and the second one represented by not neglecting the assets, rights and freedoms of individuals, and to find out the legal basis for the employee’s obligation to preserve job secrets. It is necessary to define the types of job secrets, and then indicate the legal basis for the employee’s obligation to keep job secrets, in addition to the penalty the legal consequences of violating these secrets, through the texts that included this.