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When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down workplaces and closed international borders, seemingly overnight in early 2020, many expatriate employees were suddenly thrown into crisis...

Outten & Golden LLP, By Tammy Marzigliano, Pawanpreet Dhaliwal, and Brittany Arnold

Daryl Woodruff was an interim superintendent and contender for a leadership position at PG&E. He was fired for fabricated performance issues after he spoke his conscience twice. First, he stood up for himself and his colleagues by complaining of race discrimination to the company’s human resources department. Second, he reported his good faith belief that other PG&E leaders had failed to inspect defective, potentially explosive electrical transformers and lied about it,...

It is pretty much unavoidable. At some point, you will work for the Boss From Hell — unreasonable, abusive, maybe even dishonest.

In many cases, your options are limited, primarily to finding a new job.

But if you honestly believe your boss is committing fraud, you can report it. And federal law gives workers more protection than ever against retaliation by said Boss From Hell or anyone else at the company.

"There is a safety net," said Tammy Marzigliano, co-chair of the Whistleblower and Retaliation Practice Group at...

Outten & Golden LLP partner Tammy Marzigliano is featured in this issue (p. 28).

This is a guest post by Tammy Marzigliano, Laurence S. Moy and Piper Hoffman. Moy and Marzigliano are partners at Outten & Golden LLP, a plaintiff-side employment law firm. Hoffman is a writer and former partner at Outten & Golden. She blogs at piperhoffman.com.

If you get an offer letter when you are getting ready to start a new job, read it carefully. It is a critical document.

Employers do not always consider offer letters to be employment...

Excerpt: “Whistleblowers need to understand what their rights are, what the laws are, and under what instances they can be protected by anti- retaliation provisions,” says Tammy Marzigliano, partner, and co-chair of the whistleblower and retaliation practice at the New York law firm Outten & Golden. Clients often tell her that this or that activity they uncovered was definitely wrong and that they consequently blew the whistle. Much to their surprise, she sometimes has to tell them that what they blew the whistle about (mismanagement,...

“We live in an age of advanced technology, which provides opportunities for more efficient and flexible modes of communicating and working. Eliminating policies such as a flexible work schedule diminishes our progressive advances, and most often negatively impacts women more than men, as women are predominately the primary caretakers and are in greater need of flex time.”
–Tammy Marzigliano, Partner, Outten Golden LLP

First it was Yahoo’s decision to cut work-from-home arrangements. Now Best Buy is following suit. In...

The following is a guest post from Tammy Marzigliano, a partner at New York’s Outten & Golden, a leading employee-side law firm, and Piper Hoffman, a former Outten & Golden partner who now blogs at PiperHoffman.com. I don’t think it’s always necessary to hire a lawyer to negotiate your severance deal, but Marzigliano and Hoffman make a case worth considering. (If you’d like more food for thought, in April I wrote a piece, How To Negotiate Severance.)

When now-bankrupt Solyndra fired CEO Chris Gronet...

Regulations meant to overhaul and strengthen federal oversight of the financial system, which many see as responsible for causing the economic recession, have the added benefit of strengthening employee rights in the workplace.  The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law by President Obama on Wednesday, contains important protections for employees who blow the whistle on corporate wrongdoing.  The legislation expands whistleblower protections for employees of financial services companies and other publicly-traded corporations and their subsidiaries by...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. allegedly violated federal, state, and city laws when it fired an employee who became disabled after a motor vehicle accident, according to the law firm Outten & Golden LLP.

Kiki Paris, former Senior Director of National Accounts for Body & Soul Magazine, which is owned by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. MSO, filed the complaint in New York federal court Tuesday.

According to the complaint, Ms. Paris, a 53-year-old Manhattan resident, had generated millions of dollars in advertising revenue for Body & Soul prior to being...