{"id":1006964,"date":"2026-05-05T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006964"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:32:00","slug":"chinese-court-rules-firms-cant-lay-off-workers-on-ai-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/05\/chinese-court-rules-firms-cant-lay-off-workers-on-ai-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese court rules firms can&#8217;t lay off workers on AI grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilise the domestic labour market with a global race to develop AI technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The court decided that a tech firm in eastern China had illegally fired one of its workers after he refused to take a demotion when his job was automated by AI, according to a statement by the Hangzhou Intermediate People&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilise the domestic labour market with a global race to develop AI technologies. The court decided that a tech firm in eastern China had illegally fired one of its workers after he refused to take a demotion when his job was automated by AI, according to a statement by the Hangzhou Intermediate People&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006965,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006964\/revisions\/1006965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}