What You Need to Know

• Appeals Court rejects challenge to restriction on what state government workers can say about their own workplace discrimination claims.
• A revision to the rule, changing the demand for confidentiality to a request, was the basis for the court's rejection of the constitutional challenge.
• A harassment victim must be protected from potential retaliation, which requires

A New Jersey appeals court has rejected a constitutional challenge to a regulation directing state government workers not to discuss their own workplace discrimination claims with others.

The plaintiff’s claim that the state regulation creates an unconstitutional prior restraint of state employees’ First Amendment rights is undone by a revised regulation changing the demand for confidentiality to a request and taking away the threat of termination for disclosure, the appeals court ruled.

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