Nuked The Los Angeles Times has a great piece that interviews three former Tesla employees about their experiences with racism, discrimination, and retaliation at the company. The story acts as a way to contextualize a lawsuit that the automaker is currently facing, where the Department of fair employment and housing alleges that the company has a’racially segregated workplace’.
Being able to read actual interviews helps connect names, faces, and individual experiences to the situation at Tesla’s facility in California.
One of the employees says she was n’t given a performance review, raise, or promotion. She was later fired for an accident where she hit a sprinkler with a forklift.
One said Tesla’began looking for a reason to fire him’ after he reported his racist treatment to HR. The other said she felt like she was forced out of the company after being’badgered by supervisors’.
Hr emailed her that she was’under investigation for allegedly threatening someone’. She was told it was someone on the day shift.
Tesla has faced scrutiny for having a hostile workplace. Last year, a jury in California ruled that the company would have to pay a former worker $ 137 million in damages.
The company also had to pay another former employee $ 1 million after he won an arbitration suit. Other employees have accused the company of having a racist culture.
