Tesla is ordered to pay former worker $137 million for racism at plant
3 years, 3 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 employee disputes, had to defend itself in a public trial. J. Bernard Alexander III, a lawyer for Diaz, told jurors that “as opposed to a zero-tolerance policy, Tesla had a zero-responsibility policy.” The “N-word” was “pervasive and virtually everywhere,” Alexander said. Organ also was on the team representing Melvin Berry, a Black former employee who won the $1-million arbitration award over claims that the company failed to stop his supervisors at its Fremont, Calif., plant from calling him the “N-word.” Tesla faces yet another case making similar accusations that is proceeding as a class action in California state court in Oakland.

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