The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission presented a demand Allegations of misconduct against the automaker African American employees at its factory in California. A federal agency filed a lawsuit Thursday that alleges Tesla Discrimination against workers African Americans He claimed, with whom there was a bomb attack Racist epithetsThey were given worse jobs than white workers and fired when they complained.
The lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission argues that managers Tesla was aware of Discrimination And Verbal abuse, but they didn’t do enough to stop it. The company said it presented demand After unsuccessfully trying to reach an agreement with Tesla to address Discrimination.
The demand Accusation ends Tesla of racism Expanded to its factory in Fremont, California, near San Francisco. This year, a jury awarded one man nearly $3.2 million Afro American Which the automaker accused of ignoring Racial discrimination Which he encountered while working as a contractor in a factory.
A group of about 240 men and women African Americans who worked Tesla Since 2016 they have asked a judge to grant them class action status for the claims Racial discriminationWhich includes routinely being treated as “slave,” “you,” and worse.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, now called the Department of Civil Rights, the state agency charged with enforcing anti-discrimination laws, filed suit. TeslaAlleged, among other things, that workers African Americans “Heavily underrepresented” in management positions.
“It’s telling that every government agency and labor advocate looking at this situation has the same reaction,” said Brian Schwartz, an Oakland attorney representing the plaintiffs in the case. demand Class action, in an email. “Harassment the racist And Discrimination of Tesla against workers African Americans “They are appalling, illegal and must be dealt with systematically and on a class level.”
Its lawyers Tesla They did not respond to requests for comment.
2022 in a statement in response demand From the California Institute, Tesla He said he was “strongly opposed” to all forms of Discrimination. The agency described the case as “a narrative woven” by state agencies and US law firms. Plaintiff.
The demand From EEOC charges a Tesla Violates federal law “for engaging in and continuing to engage in discrimination against employees.” African Americans Fremont subdues them at the factory Racial harassment Serious or pervasive and creates a hostile work environment because of your race.”
“Ritual ethnically “The inappropriate behavior was frequent, persistent, inappropriate, unwanted, and occurred across all shifts, departments and locations,” the lawsuit says.
employees African Americans is treated with a Ethnic designation Daily, according to demand, which was filed by the Commission’s San Francisco District Office. Graffiti found the racistAlong with references to the swastika and the Ku Klux Klan, on desks and bathrooms, in elevators and even on cars coming off the assembly line, the complaint said.
According to the source of the case, its manager Tesla They witnessed the behavior and did not stop it. Employees who complained were punished with unpleasant assignments or fired, the suit says.
a worker Afro American He said he was disciplined for playing the song after allegations of misconduct. Elon Musk, its CEO TeslaSaid employees Tesla The assembly line plays music and describes the company as a “fun” workplace.
The demand The commission asked the federal court in Oakland to make the order Tesla To stop discrimination and retaliatory treatment of workers African Americans, and compensation for misbehaving employees. The suit also seeks punitive damages.
Through: The New York Times
Editor’s note: How terrible! Working for Mask must be a nightmare, even worse in this situation.
