Can my previous employer contact my parents?

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

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