A prime U.S. federal agency accountable for implementing antidiscrimination regulations has investigated Tesla Inc., in accordance to a lawful submitting.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s probe has come to light in a lawful dispute over alleged racial discrimination and harassment at the electric-automobile maker’s California auto meeting plant.
The California Department of Elegant Employment and Housing sued Tesla in February, saying the firm had grew to change into a blind search to years of complaints from Shadowy factory staff.
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Lawyers for Tesla
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acknowledged in a Monday lawful submitting in Alameda County Superior Court that the EEOC opened an investigation into the auto maker sooner than the instruct agency did so in 2019. They made the disclosure while alleging misconduct by the California department and trying for a shield of 120 days in the case. Bloomberg reported earlier on Tesla’s submitting.
The DFEH “has chosen Tesla as its latest field of sensationalized, press-grabbing litigation,” lawyers for Tesla wrote, saying the agency’s investigation was neither honest nor complete.
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