Wal-Mart Wins Gag Order on Security Employee

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- A security employee fired by Wal-Mart last month must stop discussing his former employer, according to a temporary restraining order the retailer here won in circuit court Monday. The order temporarily bars Bruce Gabbard from disclosing trade secrets or confidential information about Wal-Mart and to provide the retailer with names of “all persons to whom he transmitted ... any Wal-Mart information,” since Jan. 15, according to the Associated Press. Gabbard was fired last month for allegedly recording phone calls between company officials and reporters. Gabbard in Monday‘s Wall Street Journal revealed Wal-Mart‘s board of directors had discussed selling its Sam‘s Club division in an attempt to raise its stock price. Wal-Mart declined to address those allegations specifically, but in a statement Monday said thorough strategic reviews of all its business were “just good governance.”