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Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI
A Hangzhou tech company told a quality-assurance supervisor, surnamed Zhou, that AI could do his job, offered him a demotion with a 40% pay cut, and fired him when he refused. The Hangzhou intermediate court ruled the dismissal unlawful and ordered 260,000 yuan in compensation.
- Language it was published in
- en
- Date it happened
- 2026-04-01
- Product, system or model
- AI replacing a QA role
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