What is Whistleblower Law? In New Jersey, “whistleblower law” refers to a body of law which protects employees who engage in “whistleblowing activity.” There are two basic sources of New Jersey whistleblower law: the statutory protections of the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA); and the common law protections…
New Jersey’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act (“CEPA”) provides a remedy for employees who are wrongfully terminated in retaliation for objecting to conduct which is believed to be illegal. This Act is often referred to as the New Jersey “whistleblower law.” In fact, it is one of the most liberally interpreted and…
New Jersey’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act (“CEPA”) is New Jersey’s whistleblower protection law. CEPA provides perhaps the broadest and strongest legal protections in the country against whistleblower retaliation. However, it does not protect against all employee complaints that an employer is doing something it shouldn’t. In the recent case of…