Lately, the word coming out of Trenton appears to be that New Jersey’s legislative and executive branches have begun to realize just how employer- unfriendly New Jersey has become. It thankfully seems as though the judiciary may be coming around to that way of thinking as well.
After years of continued expansion of New Jersey’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act, CEPA, to a point well beyond what was intended by the Legislature, the Appellate Division has recently allowed common sense to restrain the continued expansion of the statute.
