Enlarge / Vehicles parked on the Tesla manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, on February 10, 2022. (credit score: Getty Photos | Josh Edelson)
The US Equal Employment Alternative Fee (EEOC) sued Tesla yesterday, alleging that the electrical carmaker violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting Black staff at its manufacturing amenities in Fremont, California, “to extreme or pervasive racial harassment and created and maintained a hostile work atmosphere due to their race.”
The US company additionally alleged that Tesla “unlawfully retaliated in opposition to Black staff who opposed actions they perceived to represent illegal employment discrimination.” The lawsuit was filed in US District Courtroom for the Northern District of California and alleges that the discrimination has been ongoing since Might 2015.
“All through the Related Interval, racial slurs, chief amongst them, [different variations of the N-word] in addition to racist epithets and race-based stereotyping permeated Tesla’s Fremont Manufacturing unit subjecting Black staff to racial hostility and offenses,” the lawsuit stated. “Non-Black perpetrators of the racial misconduct have labored in quite a lot of positions at Tesla, together with as managers, supervisors, line leads, manufacturing leads, manufacturing associates, and non permanent employees.”
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