Big bucks: Motorists drive past Tesla’s vehicle factory in Fremont. The plant is at the centre of a lawsuit in which a court first awarded an employee US$137mil (RM606mil) in damages, before having it reduced to US$15mil (RM66mil). — Bloomberg
SAN FRANCISCO: A trial kicks off in San Francisco federal court to determine how much money Tesla Inc must pay to a black elevator operator whom a jury determined was subjected to severe racial harassment while working at the electric automaker’s flagship assembly plant.
A lawyer for plaintiff Owen Diaz told a jury during opening statements on Monday that the racist slurs, graffiti and threats his client faced were part of a “plantation mentality” at the Fremont, California, factory where black workers were treated as second-class citizens.
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