Tesla sentenced to pay $3.2 million for racial discrimination
- April 4, 2023
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A US court has ordered Tesla to pay a $3.2 million settlement to a former employee for racial discrimination after repeated abuses at the company’s car assembly plant
A US court has ordered Tesla to pay a $3.2 million settlement to a former employee for racial discrimination after repeated abuses at the company’s car assembly plant in California, local press reported Tuesday.
Owen Diaz, a black worker who was hired in 2015 in Fremont, California through a service agency, said he was subjected to racist abuse at the plant for several months and that Tesla did not take action to prevent the constant harassment he suffered.
Diaz stated that during his time in Fremont, he and other black workers were constantly abused by some of his colleagues who made racist drawings in the plant’s toilets.
For their part, Tesla’s lawyers accused Diaz of lying and exaggeration.
In 2021, the jury initially ruled that Tesla should pay Diaz $137 million, but the judge in the case reduced the fine to $15 million, saying the amount was inflated.
Both Diaz and Tesla appealed Judge William Orrick’s decision, and on Monday a San Francisco court again reduced the fine to $3.2 million.
US media reported today that Tesla has sued employees and former employees more than 200 times. This figure does not include cases that did not go through the courts and were resolved in arbitration.
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In July 2022, 15 black workers and former employees of Tesla sued the company in California for racial discrimination and sexual harassment.
One of the plaintiffs, Teri Mitchell, said she was regularly harassed by both other workers and her bosses, who told her, among other things, that “it’s weird that black people work here” and “I don’t know how long you’ll last” Here”.
In 2021, at least seven women sued Tesla, also in California, for encouraging a culture of sexual harassment at a Fremont plant.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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