Tesla is being sued by the Californian government, being accused of discriminating against Black employees. 9News
., 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 world's wealthiest person, and the state where he launched the company. Tesla is now worth more than $900 billion, less than 20 years after Musk set out to transform the auto industry.
The 39-page lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing, frames Tesla's move to Texas as an attempt to evade accountability for turning "a blind eye to years of complaints from Black workers who protest commonplace use of racial slurs on the assembly line".
Besides the N-word, other racist language used in the factory include descriptions that likened Black workers to a "porch monkey" and "hood rats" and suggestions that they "go back to Africa," according to the lawsuit. The complaint also alleges the factory was racially segregated, resulting in the area where Black workers laboured to be derided as the "slave ship," or "the plantation".
The company asserted that the agency has been asked on nearly 50 occasions during the past five years to look into allegations of discrimination and harassment, and closed each investigation without finding any evidence of misconduct."It therefore strains credibility for the agency to now allege, after a three-year investigation, that systematic racial discrimination and harassment somehow existed at Tesla," the company wrote, while trying to frame the lawsuit as a publicity stunt.
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