Warner Brothers Wants Race Bias Suit Sent to Arbitration

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. wants to arbitrate a race discrimination dispute with a former finance executive of a recently-acquired subsidiary.

WB acquired streaming service Dramafever in 2016 and changed the name to Warner Bros. Digital Labs, according to Chung Chang’s complaint. Dramafever was a subscription Asian media platform for Western audiences with an Asian-majority C-suite, he said.

When the service shuttered two years later, Chang claims WB “terminated every high-level Asian American employee of Dramafever,” including himself, “while sparing high-level white employees.” The company threatened him with legal action when he told it of his intent to file discrimination ...