Can my previous employer contact my parents?

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Can my previous employer contact my parents?

I recently quit my job 5 weeks ago and my brother who was also previously employed there received a text from our old manager asking for contact info for my parents. Why would my manager need this info? Also after calling into the store to tell them that I don’t want to be contacted and I told them that I don’t want my family to be contacted, I was told that I was

Asked on October 8, 2019 under Employment Labor Law, Washington

Answers:

M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 4 years ago | Contributor

Yo have no claim here. the fact is that your formal employer can contact whoever it likes absent a non-disclosure or similar agreement to the contrary. Bottom line, there is no automatic right to confientiality regarding past employment.

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 4 years ago | Contributor

It is legal: you do not have any legal right to tell anyone, including a former employer, to not contact anybody else, including your family. Any person or entity (i.e. LLC or corporation) can contact anyone else whom he, she, or it chooses, unless there was a written non-contact or non-disclosure agreement of some kind.


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