State agency asks court to order Tesla to cooperate in discrimination investigation
1 year, 8 months ago

State agency asks court to order Tesla to cooperate in discrimination investigation

LA Times  

Workers assemble cars on the line at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, Calif., in 2015. “Tesla’s failure to comply with my office’s obligation to investigate allegations of workplace misconduct shows a lack of respect for the rights and well-being of their workers,” Kevin Kish, the director of the California Civil Rights Department, said in a news release Thursday. Civil rights officials said in the new court filing that at recent meetings Tesla had argued the state didn’t have the authority for the subpoena that asked for a deposition of a witness who had knowledge of the company’s policies on reporting, handling and investigating complaints of discrimination by employees. This week, the state Supreme Court decided against hearing Tesla’s appeal of a lower court ruling on yet another civil lawsuit by Black workers at the company’s assembly plant in Fremont, Calif. The lower court also ruled that minority workers in the Fremont plant could seek a court order requiring Tesla to acknowledge a climate of racial discrimination at the factory and take steps to stop it.

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US agency sues Tesla over alleged harassment of Black factory workers
1 year, 2 months ago

US agency sues Tesla over alleged harassment of Black factory workers

Live Mint  

A civil rights agency in the United States has filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc. According to the lawsuit filed by the EEOC, Tesla has neglected to properly investigate complaints regarding racist behaviour and has taken actions such as terminating or retaliating against employees who reported harassment. This lawsuit introduces federal charges in addition to the discrimination claims brought by …

Tesla sued for ‘widespread and ongoing’ racial harassment at California plant
1 year, 2 months ago

Tesla sued for ‘widespread and ongoing’ racial harassment at California plant

LA Times  

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Tesla Inc. for “widespread and ongoing” racial harassment of its Black employees and for retaliating against workers who spoke out about the problem, the federal agency announced Thursday. Since at least 2015, “Black employees at Tesla’s Fremont, California, manufacturing facilities have routinely endured racial abuse, pervasive stereotyping, and hostility as well as epithets,” the …

Black workers allege rampant racism at Tesla factory, seek class-action status
1 year, 6 months ago

Black workers allege rampant racism at Tesla factory, seek class-action status

Live Mint  

As many as 240 workers have claimed of facing rampant racial discrimination during their work tenure at Tesla's California-based factory. ‘Be thick-skinned’ about racial harassment, said Musk Last year, California regulators sued Tesla in a state court regarding the company's apathetic behaviour to racial discrimination among workers. ‘Tesla allowed this kind of harassment to go on as long as it …

Tesla ordered to pay $3.2 million to Black ex-worker in racial bias case
1 year, 8 months ago

Tesla ordered to pay $3.2 million to Black ex-worker in racial bias case

Firstpost  

The jury awarded the ex-worker, who worked as an elevator operator, $175,000 in damages for emotional distress and $3 million in punitive damages designed to punish unlawful conduct and deter it in the future A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee after he won a racial …

Tesla hit by new lawsuit alleging racism against Black workers
2 years, 5 months ago

Tesla hit by new lawsuit alleging racism against Black workers

Al Jazeera  

Some plaintiffs were assigned to the most physically demanding posts or passed over for promotion, the lawsuit said. Fifteen Black former or current employees at Tesla filed a lawsuit against the electric-car maker on Thursday, alleging they were subjected to racial abuse and harassment at its factories. The workers said they were subjected to offensive racist comments and behaviour by …

California accuses Tesla of alleged discrimination at plant
2 years, 10 months ago

California accuses Tesla of alleged discrimination at plant

Associated Press  

SAN RAMON, Calif. — California regulators have sued Tesla Inc. alleging the electric car maker has been discriminating against Black employees who have been likened to monkeys and slaves at the San Francisco Bay Area factory where most of its trendy vehicles are made. The 39-page lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court by California’s Department of Fair …

Horrific allegations of racism prompt California lawsuit against Tesla
2 years, 10 months ago

Horrific allegations of racism prompt California lawsuit against Tesla

LA Times  

Black workers at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif. factory were relegated to difficult physical jobs such as scrubbing floors on their hands and knees, a lawsuit alleges. Tesla segregated Black workers into separate areas that its employees referred to as “porch monkey stations,” “the dark side,” “the slave ship” and “the plantation,” the lawsuit alleges. The state’s lawsuit suggests the relocation to …

California Sues Tesla Over ‘Racially Segregated’ Fremont Factory
2 years, 10 months ago

California Sues Tesla Over ‘Racially Segregated’ Fremont Factory

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A California regulatory agency is suing carmaker Tesla, alleging a “racially segregated” workplace at its Fremont factory, where Black workers were regularly and repeatedly subjected to racial slurs and discrimination. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing alleged in a complaint it said it filed Wednesday in Alameda Superior Court that “every day” Black workers heard …

California says it’s suing Tesla for ‘severe’ racism at factory
2 years, 10 months ago

California says it’s suing Tesla for ‘severe’ racism at factory

Al Jazeera  

Tesla in a February 8 blog post asked the court to pause the case and take other steps to ensure that facts will be heard. California’s civil rights regulator said it’s suing Tesla Inc. for racial discrimination after finding widespread harassment of Black workers at the electric car-maker’s factory near San Francisco. The state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing …

Lawsuit says Tesla subjects women to ‘rampant sexual harassment’
3 years, 1 month ago

Lawsuit says Tesla subjects women to ‘rampant sexual harassment’

Al Jazeera  

Former Tesla employee claims she experienced ‘nightmarish’ sexual harassment conditions and that managers failed to act on her complaints. Tesla Inc.’s female employees face “rampant sexual harassment,” according to a lawsuit by a woman who works in the electric carmaker’s Fremont, California, factory. Jessica Barraza, 38, said in a complaint filed Thursday in state court in Oakland that she experienced …

Black ex-Tesla worker who claimed racial abuse awarded $137M
3 years, 2 months ago

Black ex-Tesla worker who claimed racial abuse awarded $137M

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla Inc. must pay nearly $137 million to a Black former worker who said he suffered racial abuse at the electric carmaker’s San Francisco Bay Area factory. Diaz alleged in a lawsuit that he was harassed and faced “daily racist epithets,” including the “N-word,” while working at Tesla’s Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016 before quitting. “Tesla’s …

Tesla is ordered to pay former worker $137 million for racism at plant
3 years, 2 months ago

Tesla is ordered to pay former worker $137 million for racism at plant

LA Times  

Tesla Inc. lost a case brought by a Black former elevator operator and must pay him $137 million for having turned a blind eye to racial taunts and offensive graffiti he endured at the electric-car maker’s Northern California plant, according to the man’s lawyer. Diaz’s case marked a rare instance in which Tesla, which typically uses mandatory arbitration to resolve …

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