Two ex employees at BitTorrent, which is the peer-to-peer torrent client acquired by Tron in 2018, have sued the founder of the cryptocurrency and CEO Justin Sun for alleged labor violations and harassment.
Unsealed court documents filed in California on October 28 show that plaintiffs Lukasz Juraszek, 28, and Richard Hall, 50, are seeking $15 million in damages against Rainberry Inc. which is the legal operating entity for the Tron Foundation, Sun as well as his head of engineering Cong Li.
The complaint for damages rests on claims of wrongful termination, racial discrimination, a hostile work environment, fraud and whistleblower retaliation, harassment and unfair employemnt practices which include labor code violations as well as unfair business practices.
Hall was the product director at BitTorrent and the Tron Foundation for seven months until June 2019. On the other hand, Juraszek worked as a software engineer between February and August of the same year.
As the Tron news now show, the 70-page lawsuit shows that both plaintiffs faced discrimination on the grounds of their Caucasian origins as well as their refusal to stay silent about their concerns as to the legality about the company’s operations. This includes criminal violations of state and national statues which concern pirated copyright materials and child pornography.
As per the documents, the ex employees at Tron faced hostility and retaliation due to the fact that neither “fit the profile.”
“The kind of worker that defendant Justin Sun sought: an employee who was mainland Chinese, would not object or “rock the boat” when they saw actual or potential illegal activity […] and who would work […] from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, six days a week […] without […] voicing any concerns about illegal, unethical, immoral or unscrupulous business activities.”
Juraszek now claims that he faced punitive treatment over his objections to the firm’s activities. He said that the termination of his employment was mainly orchestrated by Li, with the latter advising Juraszek’s supervisor to hold him to “impossibly high engineering standards” that he “could not possibly accomplish.” Now, he claims that the pressure was little more than needed for his own objections to Rainberry’s “sordid and unethical” business choices.
Many cryptonews outlets tried to reach Sun for comment, but did not receive an immediate response as of press time.
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