{"id":98892,"date":"2021-10-06T06:54:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=98892"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:54:58","slug":"us-jury-orders-tesla-to-pay-former-worker-137-million-in-racism-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/10\/06\/us-jury-orders-tesla-to-pay-former-worker-137-million-in-racism-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"US Jury Orders Tesla to Pay Former Worker $137 Million in Racism Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 <\/span>A California verdict ordering Tesla to pay a Black former employee $137 million in damages for turning a blind eye to racism the man encountered at the firm’s Silicon Valley auto plant is a resounding message to corporate America in the eyes of his attorney.”They awarded an amount that could be a wake-up call for American corporations,” civil rights attorney Larry Organ told AFP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Don’t engage in racist conduct, and don’t allow racist conduct to continue.”<\/p>\n

Owen Diaz was hired through a staffing agency as an elevator operator at the electric vehicle manufacturer\u2019s Fremont factory between June 2015 and July 2016, where he was subjected to racist abuse and a hostile work environment, according to the court filing.<\/p>\n

In his lawsuit filed in 2017, Diaz said African American employees at the factory, where his son also worked, were regularly subjected to racist epithets and derogatory imagery.<\/p>\n

Instead of a modern workplace, the plaintiffs “encountered a scene straight from the Jim Crow era,” said the suit, originally filed by Diaz, his son Demetric and a third former employee.<\/p>\n

“Tesla’s progressive image was a facade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees,” the court filing said.<\/p>\n

Diaz alleged that despite complaints to supervisors, Tesla took no action over the regular racist abuse.<\/p>\n

The jury at the federal court in San Francisco on Monday awarded Diaz $130 million in punitive damages and $6.9 million for emotional distress, Organ confirmed.<\/p>\n

“I knew all along Owen was telling the truth. I just had to prove it to eight strangers,” he said, referring to the panel of jurors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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