A federal judge in California on Monday ordered a new trial on the damages Tesla Inc owes to a Black former factory worker who accused the company of race d
Jun 27th 2022 at 2:40PMInc owes to a Black former factory worker who accused the company of race discrimination, after he turned down a $15 million award.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco granted Tesla's motion for a new trial a week after the former elevator operator, Owen Diaz, said he would not accept the judge's award.A jury last October had awarded Diaz $137 million, one of the largest verdicts ever in a discrimination case involving a single worker. Orrick in April said Tesla was liable to Diaz for discrimination, but he said the award was excessive and lowered it to $15 million.
Diaz's lawyers said last week that the lower award was unjust and undermined his constitutional rights.In his 2017 lawsuit, Diaz alleged that his colleagues and a supervisor at Tesla's Fremont, California, assembly plant subjected him to a hostile work environment that included racist slurs, caricatures and swastikas.
Tesla is facing a series of lawsuits involving alleged widespread race discrimination and sexual harassment at the Fremont factory, including one by a California civil rights agency., and board of directors of neglecting worker complaints and fostering a toxic workplace culture. Tesla has denied wrongdoing and says it has policies in place to prevent and address workplace misconduct.
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