Fired Employees’ Harassment Suit Against TRON Will Move to Private Arbitration

A court has moved two fired TRON Foundation employees’ claims of wrongful termination and workplace harassment to arbitration. The defendants — the TRON Foundation, TRON file-sharing subsidiary BitTorrent, TRON CEO Justin Sun and TRON engineering head Cong Li — filed a motion to compel arbitration on Feb. 19, citing the agreement.

Plaintiffs Richard Hall and Lukasz Juraszek hinged their arbitration motion's opposition, filed on Feb. 27, on claims the agreement was presented on a “take it or leave it” basis and that they did not read or understand it. Hall and Juraszek alleged in the lawsuit, initiated in October, that they were racially discriminated and retaliated against for being Caucasian, reporting incidents of physical assault by Sun and Li to human resources, and sounding the alarm on child pornography and copyright-infringing content on BitTorrent file-sharing applications.

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