United States: Tesla accused of racial segregation in one of its factories
A complaint has been filed against Tesla in California for racial segregation in one of its factories.
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A California state agency has filed a racial discrimination complaint against Tesla, accusing the automaker of "racial segregation" in the workplace.
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After receiving hundreds of worker complaints, DFEH has found evidence that the Tesla Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace
," said Investigating Agency Director Kevin Kish. on civil matters, in a press release on Wednesday, February 9.
“
Black workers
(y)
experience racial slurs and discrimination in terms of job duties, discipline, pay and promotion, which creates a hostile work environment.
The facts in this case speak for themselves
,” he added.
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The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing emailed excerpts from the complaint filed "late afternoon" in a California court, when Tesla had already communicated in the morning on its lawsuits, before they were filed. are not confirmed.
A three-year investigation
“
Tesla firmly opposes all forms of discrimination and harassment and has a dedicated employee relations team to respond to and investigate all complaints
,” the group said in a statement, which mentions a three-year investigation. about events that allegedly took place at the Fremont plant between 2015 and 2019. “
All day, every day, black or African-American employees hear racial slurs about black workers from other employees, bosses and managers
,” the complaint states.
She cites numerous examples of rare verbal abuse, including the "N-word" (an allusion to the pejorative term for black people), a term that has become unpronounceable by white people in the United States.
"
Because the factory is racially segregated, factory workers referred to areas where many African Americans worked as the
'porch monkey station,' literally '
the don't give a fuck monkey area
,'" the complaint states.
The complaint points out that black employees were assigned to physically more difficult tasks than others at Tesla factories, were more easily fired for minor infractions, and were promoted far less frequently.
Tesla already doomed
Several employees and ex-employees of the group led by
billionaire Elon Musk
have filed complaints in recent months to denounce cases of sexual harassment or racial discrimination within the company.
"
Tesla has always taken disciplinary action and terminated employees for professional misconduct, including those who swear racially or harass others in various ways
," the group said in its statement on Wednesday, which also mentions its team in charge of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Last October, a Californian jury
sentenced Tesla to pay $137 million in
damages to a former black employee for turning a blind eye to the racism he suffered in one of the group's factories.
(
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AFP)
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