https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93KrXtjiwlw

Tesla is being sued for alleged racial discrimination and harassment by a California regulator which claims the electric carmaker operates "a racially segregated workplace".

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) said it had received "hundreds of complaints" from workers at the Fremont factory.

Tesla called the lawsuit "misguided".

It said it "strongly opposes all forms of discrimination and harassment" and will ask the court to pause the case.

Tesla said this would allow it to "take other steps to ensure that facts and evidence will be heard".

Kevin Kish, director of the DFEH, said the agency "found evidence that Tesla's Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay and promotion".

It claimed that employees would refer to areas where Black or African-American staff worked with racist historical names, such as "the plantation".

The lawsuit, filed after an investigation by the agency, also alleged that one worker heard racial slurs "as often as 50-100 times a day".

But Tesla claimed that over the past five years the DFEH has been asked by individuals to investigate the company on nearly 50 occasions.

"On every single occasion, when the DFEH closed an investigation, it did not find misconduct against Tesla," the firm said in a blog.

"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."

It also said that the claims "focused on alleged misconduct by production associates at the Fremont factory that took place between 2015 and 2019".

Last year, Tesla was ordered to pay $137m (£101m) in damages for failing to stop a black former worker at its Fremont factory from being abused.

Tesla has since appealed against the multi-million dollar settlement granted to former lift operator, Owen Diaz.

The company, which is led by chief executive Elon Musk, said in its blog that it is the "last remaining automobile manufacturer in California", has "a majority-minority workforce" and provides well-paid jobs to 30,000 people.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60330296

Damn! I hate racism, and racists disgusts me. I'm a big fan of Elon Musk and all his enterprises but I would never support racism irrespective of whatever. I still need me a Tesla and a Trip to Mars.

I await the result of this case. Till then, I keep my fingers crossed.

Matters arising

mean

Elon Musk should look squarely at these allegations of racism and racial slurs against Blacks. There is no smoke without fire. Something is wrong with the company. The world can no longer tolerate those supremacists who not only drag the civilized world centuries back but also seem to revel in the atrocities committed against humanity under the sick tenet of racism.

Elon.. .....not now

I thought Elon was born in south Africa??

Ok. We have what is worst than racism,btw I don't gv a Bleep about black Americans

Ok

US & Racism

5&6

Racism can never stop.

A lot of White SA are racist af

tropaz:




I thought Elon was born in south Africa??

Okay

Hmm, this is a never ending war... About racist

South African White
Trump supporter
Racist ancestors


What do you expect?

Racism is something that cannot be wiped out in this world

You can imagine the punishment Kurt Zouma has faced because he kicked a cat, ordinary cat oo

Whites have shown that they value animals more than blacks

Man Utd captain Harry Maguire was was accused of aggravated assault but nothing came out of it

Good

ogagusps3:
A lot of White SA are racist af

That's bullshit

MufasaLion:
Damn! I hate racism, and racists disgusts me. I'm a big fan of Elon Musk and all his enterprises but I would never support racism irrespective of whatever. I still need me a Tesla and a Trip to Mars.

I await the result of this case. Till then, I keep my fingers crossed.

You better ho for rehabilitation before it is too late

And when this company is closed down due to payment of frivolous claims like this........the generation unborn will now read about electric car in the book.


Relationship among workers is a personal things..........in as much as the company policy is not bias against any race.......you should sue the perpetrator instead.

What do I know

we go start dey see different conspiracy...

Just watch how the Nigerians who's favorite past time is tribalism would rush to condemn this man. While doing so, remember how you treat your country man just cos he isn't yoruba or ibo.

That's to say, you'd do worse if you were from a completely different race.

Black Americans and trouble. Well, it's all about the paper and it needs to be made.

Em village people don finally locate am

Na so e dey start

His rockets failed two days ago


We dey here

We go hear as em village people take finish with am