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- Hangzhou People’s Court ruled companies cannot fire workers solely to replace them with AI.
- The court ordered compensation for Zhou, whose salary fell from 25,000 yuan to 15,000 yuan on April 28.
- Higher courts upheld the ruling, stating AI is not an “objective major change”—defined by Beijing’s HR bureau as unforeseeable, not planned AI shifts—that justifies dismissal.
- Judges required employers to offer retraining, redeployment or equivalent roles before termination.
