Workers assemble Model S Sedans at the Tesla Fremont factory in 2012. | Photo by Patrick Tehan/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images
Tesla has been sued by a state civil rights agency for operating what it describes as a “racially segregated workplace” in California.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed the lawsuit late on Wednesday, reports The Wall Street Journal, after the automaker posted a blogpost pre-empting and denying the charges.
DFEH director Kevin Kish said in a statement: “After receiving hundreds of complaints from workers, DFEH 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.”
