A federal jury on Monday has ordered Tesla Inc to pay greater than $130 million in damages to a Black former employee named Owen Diaz, discovering he was subjected to a racially hostile work setting, the Wall Road Journal reported.
The jury decided that the corporate did not take cheap steps to forestall Diaz, a contract employee who labored as an elevator operator at Tesla‘s Fremont manufacturing unit in 2015 and 2016, from being racially harassed, the newspaper added.
Tesla and its attorneys didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark. Diaz’s legal professionals additionally didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Earlier than the trial started, presiding choose William Orrick rejected efforts by Tesla to exclude one juror from the jury, saying he believed the try was based mostly on race and “purposefully discriminatory.”
Final yr, the electrical carmaker disclosed in its first U.S. variety report that Black workers make up simply 4% of Tesla’s American management roles and 10% of its whole workforce within the nation.
The trial was heard on the U.S District Courtroom, Northern District of California.
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