Tesla sued by Black worker claiming racism, months after $137 million racial-abuse damages award
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/01/28/tesla-sued-by-black-worker-claiming-racism-months-after-137-million-racial-abuse-damages-award/
Tesla is again facing allegations it has failed to address racism in a workplace, just months after the company lost a lawsuit and was ordered to pay nearly $137 million to a Black worker over racist abuse.
This week, a Black woman who worked for Tesla Energy, the electric car giant’s solar-power subsidiary, filed a lawsuit claiming her white supervisor frequently called her the n-word, used another racial slur, and made “inappropriate sexual comments” to her when she was employed as a roofer in Santa Clara County for a year ending in September. Plaintiff Shanel Dickson’s suit against Tesla and Tesla Energy, filed Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, also accused the companies of gender discrimination, claiming that as the sole woman on her solar-roofing team, she “was only given light duty work.”