Racism, Tesla by Elon Musk accused of discrimination by employees of the Fremont office
Tesla from Elon Musk in the crosshairs for accusations of racism. Discrimination in offices, inequity in pay, racial insults, in Californian factory in Fremont, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hundreds of complaints from employees.
Kevin Kish, head of the Dfeh, the department that ensures that state civil rights laws are enforced, explained: “Tesla’s Fremont factory is a place where African American workers they are subjected to constant racial slurs and they come discriminated against for work assignments, discipline, pay and promotion that create a hostile work environment “only because of their origins and skin color.
The Department, Fanpage reports, has therefore reported Tesla at the Alameda County Superior Court. According to what the employees said, the managers would have them insulted 50 to 100 times a day with racist epithets. But not only. Racist writings in the bathrooms, on the tables in the dining room, on the lockers.
To these is added the name of a department of the factory, with over 10 thousand employees, nicknamed “the plantation“for the high number of African American employees present.
Tesla responds to allegations of racism
The response from the American electric car company was not long in coming. Tesla he defined the misleading accusations, and appealed to investigations in recent years within their own factories, which they do not have “never raised any concerns“Although the company had already received complaints from former workers, the most recent last October, for racial discrimination and also for harassment.
The Department said in a statement: “For many black and / or African American workers, the stress of severe and pervasive racial harassment, the risk of a physical altercation and escalation with harassers, blatant discrimination, disproportionate discipline severe and the uselessness of complaining made the job so intolerable that they resigned ”.
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