“Tesla, as a company, as a whole, needs to wake up. You know you can't keep treating workers like this.”
Owen Diaz told the court he faced a hostile work environment where employees drew swastikas and racist graffiti and used ethnic slurs regularly.Owen Diaz, the former Tesla employee who sued the electric car company over allegations of racism, is opening up about his experience.
Diaz said he complained to Tesla about his treatment but his supervisors failed to stop the abuse. He left the company four years ago, filing a lawsuit in October 2017 that claimed"Tesla's progressive image was a facade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees."
In an internal email to employees, Valerie Capers Workman, Tesla's vice president of people, said Tesla of 2015 and 2016"is not the same as the Tesla of today." Tesla published Workman's email in a blog post on its website following the verdict.
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