After 13 board members threatened to resign over the organization’s handling of sexual harassment and hostile work environment allegations — while also facing a lawsuit by three employees, its former board president stepped down.
Donald Luu stepped down as board president of the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce last week, more than three weeks before his term was set to end, as NBC Bay Area reported. Luu said the claims against him were false and had become a distraction. He remains on the board, which voted Tuesday to postpone its annual elections until June 2027, effectively extending the terms of all current board members, including Luu, by another year.
“I made the difficult decision to resign from my position as President of the Board of the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce so that I could focus on my family,” Luu said in a statement to NBC Bay Area, “and not allow an employee's false allegations against me to distract from the essential work of the chamber.”
The employee at the center of the sexual harassment allegations, Judy Lee, alleges she endured years of unwelcome advances, retaliation, and a hostile work environment, and that the chamber failed to investigate her complaints. Luu has denied the allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit against Lee, claiming she violated a confidential settlement agreement after he agreed to pay her a substantial sum to avoid "imminent threat of reputational ruin." Lee's attorney, Kathleen Alparce, called the...
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