Several Tesla employees claim in a recent complaint that they frequently faced racial harassment and abuse at the factory run by Elon Musk’s company.
According to a Reuters report, the lawsuit was brought by 15 current or former employees who are all Black and claim they were called racist slurs. In one alleged incident, a supervisor allegedly harassed one of the plaintiffs by calling him a “zebra” and said that he was “neither Black nor white.”
Another claimed event involves a former employee allegedly hearing from another that Black employees staying with the organization for a long time was “rare.”
The recently publicized lawsuit is one of many against Tesla that claim similar behavior, including the claim that one employee was demoted after missing work due to COVID-19. For instance, a judge recently mandated a second trial in a discrimination case brought by a former elevator operator. As was previously mentioned, the jury award of $136.9 million was lowered by a federal judge to a $15 million award, which the former employee’s attorneys rejected.
Back in 2017, a Tesla representative stated the business was “absolutely against” discrimination in a lengthy response to a then-recent complaint from a former assembly worker.