Tesla-black-employee-abused-racially-sued-millions
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, Tesla was ordered to pay almost $137 million to a former employee, Owen Diaz, who stated he suffered racial abuse and discrimination at the San Francisco based <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/?s=tesla&;post_type=post">company</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diaz worked as an elevator operator between June 2015 and May 2016. He sued the company, alleging a hostile work environment and racial harassment, according to The Washington Post. Diaz also claimed he was called the “n-word” during his tenure at the company. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The initial suit by Diaz, who is Black, alleged that workers encountered a scene &#8216;straight from the Jim Crow era,&#8217; where workers were subjected to frequent racist harassment and supervisors took no action,” The Washington Post also reports.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The suit also claimed that “Tesla’s progressive image was a facade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diaz also alleged that employees would draw swastikas and racist graffiti and drawings at the Tesla plant. In his complaint, Diaz alleged supervisors didn’t stop the abuse from occurring.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A judge awarded $130 million for punitive damages and $6.9 million for emotional distress, according to his attorney, Lawrence A. Organ.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It took four long years to get to this point,” Diaz told the New York </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/business/tesla-racism-lawsuit.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Times</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “It’s like a big weight has been pulled off my shoulders.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s a great thing when one of the richest corporations in America has to have a reckoning of the abhorrent conditions at its factory for Black people,” Organ, of the California Civil Rights Law Group told the </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/business/tesla-racism-lawsuit.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Times</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, according to <a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/jury-awards-137m-to-black-ex-tesla-worker-who-claimed-daily-racial-abuse/">KTLA</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s unknown if Tesla will appeal the decision.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you may know, this isn’t the first time a former employee made these allegations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In May, Tesla was ordered to pay more than $1 million by an arbitrator who alleged they were also called racial slurs by co-workers and supervisors didn’t intervene.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roomies, what do you think about this situation?</span></p>
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