Shopify Mostly Clears Asian AI Engineer’s Bias, Retaliation Suit

A Shopify employee who is Asian and takes care of his disabled son can try again to plead allegations that race and disability bias spurred workplace harassment and his termination.

Hong Wu didn’t adequately plead race discrimination because he failed to identify a worker outside his protected class who was treated more favorably, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Monday. The former AI engineer says bias caused his manager to instruct him to communicate less often with his colleagues, but the suit didn’t support an inference of discrimination without pointing to a non-Asian employee was ...