Tesla, the world’s most valuable carmaker, filed a countersuit against the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) after the agency alleged that the company’s Fremont plant fostered racial bias.
In its February complaint, the CRD called the plant a “racially segregated’ workplace. The agency reported about a black worker at Fremont having heard racial slurs up to 50–100 times a day. The workers also spotted racist graffiti at workstations, restroom walls, lunch tables, and other areas of the plant. Racial slurs are said to have been thrown around in Spanish, including words like negrita and mayate.
In the countersuit, Tesla calls CRD’s conduct as “entirely inconsistent with the principles of fair notice, neutral investigations, good faith conciliation, and mandatory pre-suit mediation embedded in the FEHA (Fair Employment and Housing Act).”…