The New Jersey Supreme Court has laid to rest the notion that the state law protecting whistleblowers doesn’t apply to an employee whose essential function is to act as one.
The unanimous court found “no support in [the Conscientious Employee Protection Act's] language, construction or application in this court’s case law that supports that watchdog employees are stripped of whistleblower protection as a result of their position or because they are performing their regular job duties.”
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