Tesla ordered to pay worker over $3M over racist treatment
Tesla is being ordered to pay a former employee at least $3 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit at its assembly plant in Fremont, California – just a fifth of the amount the judge offered him in 2021.[PDF] $3 million in punitive damages and an additional $175,000 in non-economic damages due to the hostile work environment he dealt with at the plant while employed there from 2015 to 2016.
"It has been conclusively determined that Tesla is liable to Mr Diaz," US District Court for the Northern District of California Judge William H Orrick wrote in his instructions to jurors."It is your job to determine the amount of the damages award." A jury before Orrick returned a $137 million settlement in Diaz's favor in 2021. Orrick ruled the settlement excessive, reducing it to $15 million , but instead of accepting that deal in 2021, Diaz opted for a second trial.
Tesla didn't directly accept responsibility for Diaz's treatment, but Valerie Capers Workman, Tesla's then-VP of People, did say in a 2021 blog post that"we do recognize that in 2015 and 2016 we were not perfect. We're still not perfect." "We continue to grow and improve in how we address employee concerns. Occasionally, we'll get it wrong, and when that happens we should be held accountable," Capers Workman said.
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