The state of California filed a long-awaited lawsuit against electric automobile giant Tesla this week, alleging a pattern of racist discrimination and harassment at the company’s Bay Area plant.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Alameda County Court by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing claims, among other things, that Black employees at the company’s sprawling factory in Fremont, California, were subjected to “racial slurs by managers and supervisors, segregated to the lowest levels of the workforce, including the contracted workforce, and are severely under-represented in the ranks of executives, senior officials, and managers,” according to a press release from the state.
