Understanding New Jersey's Employment Discrimination Laws
New Jersey has laws against discrimination, just like any other state does. New Jersey law also covers the same protected classes that the federal law does such as race, religion, gender, national origin, disability, age; but it also covers a couple of extra classes that are not protected by federal law such as marital status, sexual orientation, and HIV status as well. Under New Jersey law much like the federal law and other state laws; it's also not about the protected class, but the perceived protected class, for example of your sexual orientation. Sometimes a person is perceived as being gay, and they're not gay, and yet homophobic slurs are made even though the person is not gay and that is illegal as well. Under New Jersey law there's also CEPA, which is the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, which actually protects employees under a whistleblower theory.
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