Fifteen black former or current employees allege they faced racial abuse and harassment at carmaker’s factories
Fifteen black former or current employees athave filed a lawsuit against the electric carmaker, alleging they faced racial abuse and harassment at its factories.
The harassment, which allegedly occurred mostly at Tesla’s Fremont factory in California, included using the N-word and terms such as “slavery” or “plantation” or making sexual comments, the lawsuit claims. It alleges that the automaker’s “standard operating procedures include blatant, open and unmitigated race discrimination”.
It said that Montieco Justice, a production associate at Tesla’s Fremont factory, was immediately demoted upon returning to Tesla after taking an authorised leave of absence as a result of contracting Covid-19.The automaker is facing at least 10 lawsuits alleging widespread race discrimination or sexual harassment, including one by a California civil rights agency.
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