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New Jersey Whistleblower Law Amendments Enhance Employee Protections
New Jersey’s whistleblower law was recently amended to further protect New Jersey private and public sector employees from being forced by their employers to sit through required “captive audience” meetings in an attempt to improperly coerce their employees from exercising their rights.
The Conscientious Employee Protection Act
The Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) is New Jersey’s whistleblower law. Considered one of the United States’s strongest whistleblower protection laws, it forbids employers from retaliating against their employees for disclosing, objecting to, reporting or refusing to participate in activities which they reasonably believe are illegal, fraudulent, constitute improper patient care, or violate established public policy.