Jury Orders Tesla to Pay Ex-Employee $3.2M for Racial Bias
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has been ordered to pay $3.2 million in a legal suit in response to claims that it permitted race-related discrimination to happen at its U.S. main assembly facility without preventing it. A Black former employee of Tesla's Fremont factory, Owen Diaz, has been awarded $175,000 for psychological anguish and $3 million in exemplary damages by a San Francisco-based federal court in California. According to Diaz, upon reporting, Tesla did not respond to the persistent harassment that included racist remarks and offensive caricatures he experienced while working as an elevator operator in Tesla's factory in 2015 through…