SOUTH RIVER - The borough has reached a $225,000 settlement with a former town emergency services dispatcher who sued the borough, claiming he was fired because he was a whistleblower and was subjected to a hostile workplace.
The out-of-court settlement, first reported by Transparency NJ, was reached in December between Matthew Grekoski, the borough and the South River Police Department. The settlement was signed Dec. 16 by the Borough Administrator Arthur Londensky. The funds will be paid through the borough's insurance carrier.
The agreement is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing by any party, but rather a compromise of disputed claims that is entered into as a "business judgment." The borough denies that it had violated any law, statute, ordinance, contract, duty or obligation, the settlement states.
In October 2021 Grekoski filed a lawsuit in Middlesex County Superior Court alleging he was instructed to use a cheat sheet on a state test, had his mother's addiction issues used as part of his job training and was subjected to other unethical and hostile behavior that made him uncomfortable and created a hostile work environment.
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