On November 20th, a female employee of Tesla’s Fremont, California plant filed a lawsuit in the California court in Alameda County, a suburb of San Francisco, on Thursday, local time. Work in the environment. When she reported the situation to the company, the supervisors ignored it.
Jessica Barraza, 38, works as a production assistant at Tesla’s Fremont, California plant and often works night shifts. She said that during the three years of working in the factory, she had to endure boos and improper touch almost every day.
Baraza is a married mother with two children. She said that male employees often asked her to marry him, stared at her body, and pretended to accidentally rub her on purpose. Baraza said that Tesla’s human resources department did not deal with the complaints it filed in September and October, and even closed the company’s e-mail address for complaints.
Tesla is no stranger to the way in which employees at the Fremont, California plant filed allegations of abuse. On October 4 this year, a federal jury in San Francisco ordered Tesla to pay $136.9 million to Owen Diaz, a black former elevator operator, because he faced racial harassment at work.
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On November 16, Tesla tried to overturn this judgment. The company claims that it “hates and condemns” all racial discrimination, but said that even if the company needs to do a better job in eradicating racism, Diaz can only get $600,000 in compensation. Baraza asked Tesla to pay fines and compensate for violations of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.
She also said that Tesla, like many “employers in the technology industry”, requires employees to sign arbitration agreements to avoid going to court for workplace disputes, but the “unconscionable” clauses in the agreements she signed made it impossible at all. implement. Baraza said that he was diagnosed with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) by a doctor and was taking sick leave as directed by his doctor.