Showing posts with label Council gagging orders. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 07, 2018

#Sandwell council leader tells MP ‘we don’t use confidentiality agreements’. Here’s one..

Earlier this year, Tory MP James Morris launched an extraordinary attack in the Commons on Sandwell Council and its leader Steve Eling, accusing the ‘moderate’-dominated council of becoming,
synonymous with local government incompetence, corruption, and cronyism.
In addition, a Morris letter to Eling and the council’s chief executive attacked the use of ‘confidentiality agreements’ to silence ex-employees:
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Eling not only denied but ‘rubbished’ the claim that the council had been using confidentiality agreements – telling local newspaper the Halesowen News that the council does not use them:
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In spite of this denial, the SKWAWKBOX has obtained a copy of a Sandwell Council confidentiality agreement issued to one of its ex-employees. The confidentiality requirement is indisputable:

More -  https://skwawkbox.org/2018/06/06/excl-sandwell-council-leader-tells-mp-we-dont-use-confidentiality-agreements-heres-one/