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Tesla Accused by California of ‘Pervasive’ Racism at Factory
- Civil rights regulator cites evidence of segregated workplace
- Company said before suit was filed it will seek to pause case
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California’s civil rights regulator said it’s suing Tesla Inc. for racial discrimination after finding widespread harassment of Black workers at the electric car-maker’s factory near San Francisco.
The state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing received complaints from hundreds of workers and “found evidence that Tesla’s Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay and promotion creating a hostile work environment,” Kevin Kish, the agency’s director, said in a statement late Wednesday.