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Tesla ordered to pay over $130m to worker over racism

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/tesla-ordered-to-pay-over-130m-to-worker-over-racism-1.4691542

Racism has to stop, the guy deserves compensation for damages, but I think $130m is absurd.

What do you think?

posted on 6/10/21

comment by Bite (U3245)
posted 13 hours, 20 minutes ago
-Mr. Diaz never worked for Tesla. He was a contract employee who worked for Citistaff and nextSource.

- Mr. Diaz worked as an elevator operator at the Fremont factory for nine months, from June 2015 to March 2016.

- In addition to Mr. Diaz, three other witnesses (all non-Tesla contract employees) testified at trial that they regularly heard racial slurs (including the n-word) on the Fremont factory floor. While they all agreed that the use of the n-word was not appropriate in the workplace, they also agreed that most of the time they thought the language was used in a "friendly" manner and usually by African-American colleagues. They also told the jury about racist graffiti in the bathrooms, which was removed by our janitorial staff;

- There was no witness testimony or other evidence that anyone ever heard the n-word used toward Mr. Diaz.

- Mr. Diaz made written complaints to his non-Tesla supervisors. Those were well-documented in the nine months he worked at our factory. But he didn't make any complaints about the n-word until after he was not hired full-time by Tesla – and after he hired an attorney.

- The three times that Mr. Diaz did complain about harassment, Tesla stepped in and made sure responsive and timely action was taken by the staffing agencies: two contractors were fired and one was suspended (who had drawn a racially offensive cartoon). Mr. Diaz himself testified that he was "very satisfied" with the results of one of the investigations, and he agreed that there was follow-up on each of his complaints.

- Even though Mr. Diaz now complains about racial harassment at Fremont, at the time he said he was being harassed, he recommended to his son and daughter – while they were all living together in the same home – that they work at Tesla with him.


That's Tesla's side of things 🤔
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Can u also do a summary of his side of things, in order to make this a more balanced discussion?, rather than the losing parties version of events and then make your mind up.

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Why did u get so aggressive for anyway?

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comment by 11th Place Is Not A Trophy (U3245)
posted 3 minutes ago
you can make it a balanced discussion by posting his side of the story?
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OK...He went to court...and won $130 million because they clearly had evidence in court, which justified his claims.

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comment by 11th Place Is Not A Trophy (U3245)
posted 1 minute ago
that was highlighted in the link posted in the article. so why did you ask for information you already had access to?
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because someone very nicely made a summary for the losing party, which has clearly influenced this board,so i asked for the other side of the story..from them.i cannot be bothered to do that tbh.

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