Tesla settles with worker who claimed employees told "welcome to the plantation"

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/musk-tesla-fremont-california-lawsuit-discrimination-b2735810.html

by Veserv • 1 year ago

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Veserv• 1 year ago

Coming after Diaz v Tesla [1] where Tesla was found guilty of racial harassment and discrimination in that same Fremont, California plant (as can be seen here on page 3-11 [2]) to a degree that the jury deemed it worthy of a $136.9 million award, the single largest award in a race harassment case in American history [2]. That award was later reduced for procedural reasons as it was beyond the maximum limit the law allows. And further reduced in a subsequent trial evaluating direct damages due to emotional distress and loss of work which, as a matter of law, restricted the maximum allowable punitive damages. Despite that, the jury found it necessary to award punitive damages in excess of the standard maximum of 9:1 [4] which was upheld by the courts as, in the words of the judge: "Tesla’s conduct was reprehensible and repeated"[5] and as such the award in excess of standard maximums was "appropriate in light of the endemic racism at the Tesla factory and Tesla’s repeated failure to rectify it"[6].

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06...

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06...

[3] https://www.civilrightsca.com/key-verdicts/diaz-v-tesla-race...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Farm_Mutual_Automobile_I...

[5] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06... Page 29

[6] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06... Page 1 End of Paragraph 1.

devwastaken• 1 year ago

fake damage rewards are designed to benefit corps so they can cause public outrage in their favor while in reality paying a small fraction due to payout limitations.

djohnston• 1 year ago

Welcome to the slave house is far more egregious than welcome to the plantation. Not sure why they chose the latter for the headline of the article.

Tesla settles with worker who claimed employees told "welcome to the plantation"

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