Imagine that you are an experienced labor and employment attorney in Boston, Massachusetts and the “Erin Brockovich” of employment law walks right through your door. For the past twenty years, she has worked for Mega–Corp as the Director of Human Resources; a lofty title that matches her extensive experience in administering employee pension funds. With revenues dwindling over the past few years, Mega–Corp hired a new Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) to lift the company’s profit margin. Things between the CFO and your client quickly went awry when she vocally opposed his “ideas” on how the employee pension fund should be managed. Knowing that what the CFO was asking her to do was illegal, she refused to implement his changes and reported the CFO’s outlandish requests to his boss, the Chief Executive Officer. . . .
