A federal jury in San Francisco has ordered Tesla to pay a former Black contractor $137 million over claims that he was subjected to racial discrimination at work.
Owen Diaz, who worked as a contract elevator operator at Tesla's factory in Fremont, Calif., from 2015 to 2016, said in his lawsuit that he and others were called the N-word by Tesla employees, that he was told to "go back to Africa" and that employees drew racist and derogatory pictures that were left around the factory.
The suit said Diaz was excited to go to work for Tesla, but that instead of a "modern workplace," he found a "scene straight from the Jim Crow era."
Diaz says nothing was done to stop it
Diaz said that he complained about the discriminatory treatment to Tesla and the contracting companies Citistaff and nextSource, but that nothing was ever done to stop it.
"I'm gratified that the jury saw the truth and that they sent a message to Tesla to clean up its workplace," Larry Organ, one of Diaz's attorneys, told NPR.
oh wow. that's disgusting.
get money King.
:uhh:
how insecure and unfulfilled someone must be to really take their time to make someone else feel bad like that
now he'll never have to work again if he sets that coin up right
I hope he actually gets his money
He better get at least half of that and every last penny owed, but, then he needs to get tf outta dodge and leave that area.
Them racist crackers won't let him enjoy that money otherwise
get coins king
This is great news
King cashed out.
Sadly, this might be reduced on appeal. But I hope he gets A LOT of money. Employers need to do more to create less toxic work environments.