Tesla has paid more than $1 million in damages to former black worker Melvin Berry because Tesla was convicted of failing to stop Berry’s supervisor. Called him N-word at Tesla’s Northern California plant.
After going through a closed arbitration procedure, an arbitrator awarded this rare discrimination accusation victory to Berry, which also provided an explanation for black workers’ complaints against Tesla over the years.
The black workers complained that Tesla’s production line often used racial discrimination, Tesla turned a blind eye to this and failed to clean up the graffiti with swastikas used by the Nazi Party in time and other common areas. Hate symbol. Berry joined Tesla as a material manager in 2015 and resigned less than 18 months later.
Arbitration procedures tend to keep employee and company disputes confidential, but court documents disclose that Berry’s allegations are more credible than Tesla’s denials, although the arbitrator said that after hearing the testimony of both parties, he thought it was a Difficult case.
Berry said that when he faced a supervisor who called him “old black,” he was forced to work longer and push heavier trucks.
