Posted on 10/05/2021 2:02:26 PM PDT by devane617
Tesla Inc. must pay nearly $137 million to a Black former worker who said he suffered racial abuse at the electric carmaker’s San Francisco Bay Area factory.
The jury in San Francisco agreed that Owen Diaz was subjected to racial harassment and a hostile work environment.
Diaz alleged in a lawsuit that he was harassed and faced “daily racist epithets” while working at Tesla’s Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016 before quitting. Diaz was a contracted elevator operator.
Diaz alleged that employees drew swastikas and left racist graffiti and drawings around the plant. He contended that supervisors failed to stop the abuse.
“Tesla’s progressive image was a façade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees,” the lawsuit said.
Diaz was awarded $6.9 in damages for emotional distress and $130 million in punitive damages, his attorney, Lawrence A. Organ, told the Washington Post.
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The plants should have an abundance of cameras.
Woke goes on to brake everything.
Its good work, if you can get it.
Wonder what the makeup of the jury was?
More like an Oakland area jury.
Past time to eliminate jury’s from lawsuits. The emotional manipulation of “the businesses is rich and the “victims”are poor” leads to these sort of ridiculous decisions.
All for getting his feelings hurt. I have a hard time believing this. So many BS racist incidents that have been false. And most have been blacks pretending to be white racists
Now the prices of these electrical appliance vehicles goes up even more...
I don’t believe an ounce of it.
Wow, emotional distress is worth about as much as a couple of Big Macs.
Not once in this article was the word ‘evidence’ used.
George’s family could have made their fortune without having him die.
Now that I say it out loud,
they made the right choice.
There need to be limits on punitive damage.
This is ridiculous. He got paid $6. Million for the actual discrimination. The Punitive part is simply excessive and emotion based. Some think they are “stickin’ it to those big corporations!”. They consider it a faceless font of endless money.
I would let just about anyone racially abuse me for a payday that large.
He hit the racist hoax jackpot!
$3.45 million a year for being an elevator operator. That’s almost as much as being a college football head coach.
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Absurd judgement amount, shouldn’t stand on appeal. Then again, it is California . . .
Ridiculous.
Oops, better keep my mouth shut; the Supreme Court might let someone sue me for $137 million for being racially abusive just for saying that word ‘ridiculous.’
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