The former general counsel of a not-for-profit film production company must take her gender, racial and disability discrimination claims to arbitration because the personnel policy she signed before her employment began requires arbitration for employment disputes, a federal judge ruled this week.

In January 2019, Woo Jung Cho filed suit against Cinereach Ltd. and its executive director, Philipp Engelhorn, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Cho, who was hired in 2014 as head of business affairs and made general counsel in 2015, claimed she was harassed by the company’s white male employees and claims Engelhorn did little to change the alleged toxic culture of the company. Cho further alleges that Engelhorn retaliated against her by locking her out of her email while she was on medical leave. Cho was fired from Cinereach in 2018 while still on medical leave.

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