Vehicles go the Tesla Inc. meeting plant in Fremont, California, U.S., on Monday, May 11, 2020.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued Tesla accusing Elon Musk’s electrical automobile maker of violating “federal regulation by tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black workers and by subjecting some of these staff to retaliation for opposing the harassment.”
Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The federal company accountable for implementing civil rights legal guidelines against office discrimination introduced it was submitting swimsuit against Tesla on Thursday.
Tesla was beforehand sued by a state civil rights company in California over related allegations. A jury additionally beforehand ordered Tesla to pay a Black former employee, Owen Diaz, about $3.2 million in damages after discovering he endured racist discrimination working there in 2015.
Last 12 months, a financial filing from Tesla revealed that the EEOC had issued a trigger discovering against the corporate. After that, Tesla engaged in a compulsory conciliation course of with the EEOC the submitting mentioned. The conciliation course of was not profitable, resulting in the swimsuit introduced Thursday.