According to the lawsuit filed in a California state court, the employees said they were routinely the targets of offensive racist remarks and behavior by coworkers, managers, and human resources personnel.
The lawsuit added that the automaker’s “standard operating procedures include blatant, open and unmitigated race discrimination.” The harassment, which mostly took place at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory, included using the n-word and terms like “slavery” or “plantation” as well as making sexual remarks like “likes booty.”
According to the complaint, Teri Mitchell, one of the plaintiffs, was frequently harassed by coworkers and management who used racial slurs and said things such as, “Black people rarely work here. How long you will be permitted to stay here is unknown to me.”
