A former Tesla worker won an RM572.93mil lawsuit against the electric automaker, over the company's unchecked racism in the workplace. — Bloomberg
Tesla Inc. lost a trial with a Black former elevator operator and must pay him US$137mil (RM572.93mil) for having turned a blind eye to racial taunts and offensive graffiti he endured at the electric-car maker’s northern California plant, according to the man’s lawyer.
Owen Diaz, a former contract worker hired in 2015 through a staffing agency, was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, a federal jury in San Francisco decided Monday, said Lawrence Organ, a lawyer for Diaz. The verdict couldn’t immediately be confirmed in electronic court records.
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