California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing sues Tesla, alleging widespread harassment of Black workers at the company's Fremont factory.
California’s civil rights regulator said it’s suing Tesla for racial discrimination after finding widespread harassment of Black workers at the electric car-maker’s factory near San Francisco.
The state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing received complaints from hundreds of workers and “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 creating a hostile work environment,” Kevin Kish, the agency’s director, said in a statement late Wednesday.Tesla said in a Feb.
— before the suit was filed — that the company “will be asking the court to pause the case and take other steps to ensure that facts and evidence will be heard.”The DFEH said one Black worker told of hearing racial slurs as often as 50 to 100 times a day. Some who complained about the offensive language said supervisors and managers were active participants in the abuse or witnesses to it.
The agency is the state-level equivalent of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with a mission to protect Californians from unlawful discrimination in employment, housing and accommodations. The DFEH informed Tesla on Jan. 3 that it had grounds to file a complaint. Tesla investors of the agency’s investigation in the annual report it filed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week.Tesla has more than 99,000 employees globally, and the factory in Fremont employs more than 10,000 people. The car company headed by billionaire Elon Musk moved its headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas, last year.
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