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February 10, 2022

California Sues Tesla for Discrimination Against Black Employees
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California is suing Tesla, accusing the electric car maker of operating
a "racially segregated workplace" at its factory in the San Francisco
Bay Area. California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing
received hundreds of complaints from Black workers at Tesla's Fremont
plant who say they were subjected to racial slurs and discriminated
against in job assignments, discipline, pay and promotion. Last year a
federal jury in California ordered Tesla to pay $137 million in damages
to Owen Diaz, a Black man who suffered racist abuse while working at
Tesla as an elevator operator.


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