Tesla: Another Lawsuit File Against The Factory For Racial Abuse and Harassment On Black Employees

Tesla: the electric car maker Factory, has been smashed with yet another lawsuit, with 15 black former or current employees filing a lawsuit against the Factory, alleging they were subjected to racial abuse and harassment at its factories.

In the lawsuit filed on Thursday, the workers said they were subjected to racist comments and behavior by colleagues, managers and human resources employees on a regular basis, according to the lawsuit filed in a California state court.

The harassment, which occurred mostly at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory, included using the terms ‘n*****,’ ‘slavery’ or ‘plantation’ or making sexual comments such as ‘likes booty,’ the lawsuit said, adding that the automaker’s ‘standard operating procedures include blatant, open and unmitigated race discrimination.’

Also in June, a Tesla shareholder filed a lawsuit accusing CEO Elon Musk and the company’s board of directors of neglecting worker complaints and fostering a toxic workplace culture.

In February, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) said it had fielded hundreds of complaints from workers at Tesla’s Fremont factory of being on the receiving end of ‘racial slurs as often as 50-100 times a day,’ while there was allegedly racist graffiti found, which included Nazi swastikas and reference to the Ku Klux Klan.

DFEH Kevin Kish in February said the agency had ‘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.’
Last August, Tesla paid more than $1 million to former worker, 47-year-old Melvin Berry, after an arbitrator ruled the company had failed top stop supervisors from calling him the ‘N-word.’

Tesla has previously denied wrongdoing and says it has policies in place to prevent and address workplace misconduct.