{"id":150769,"date":"2026-05-04T07:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150769"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:42:16","slug":"ai-cost-cutting-not-a-legal-excuse-to-fire-workers-chinese-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150769","title":{"rendered":"AI cost-cutting not a legal excuse to fire workers, Chinese court says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostA court in China has ruled it illegal for a company to terminate an employee on the grounds that an artificial intelligence replacement would be cheaper, affirming limits on AI-driven job displacement amid a wave of anxiety over the technology\u2019s potential to fuel unemployment.<br \/>\nA 35-year-old worker surnamed Zhou who oversaw AI-generated responses at a fintech firm in Hangzhou, capital of east China\u2019s Zhejiang province, was fired after refusing a demotion and pay cut. The company told him his role&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3352327\/ai-cost-cutting-not-legal-excuse-fire-workers-chinese-court-says?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostA court in China has ruled it illegal for a company to terminate an employee on the grounds that an artificial intelligence replacement would&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}