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Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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Between Elongate harassment, the steady stream of safe workplace violation claims in past years, and Elon now building a crack team of aggressive street fighter lawyers, it seems rather than correct the behaviors all accused entities are doubling down. What does it signal?

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Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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Between Elongate harassment, the steady stream of safe workplace violation claims in past years, and Elon now building a crack team of aggressive street fighter lawyers, it seems rather than correct the behaviors all accused entities are doubling down. What does it signal?

That the media doesn't like being teased by Musk, and the establishment is doing it's best to push out people who don't play along?

If I were to do a "Bad Take of the Week" kind of thing, this would have won it already, and it's only Tuesday.

Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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I agree with this judge. People should be able to sue their employers if they get sexually harassed by their supervisors or coworkers. Mandatory arbitration is a bad idea.

I'd go a step further and say that binding arbitration clauses between employers and their employees probably shouldn't be allowed in general. Employer/employee disputes will frequently touch upon labor law, and should be heard by a court familiar with the relevant statutes -- not by a private-sector arbitrator.

Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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I find it impossible to believe people actually think like this and aren't just aggressively defending something terrible because they are invested in the person's companies.

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> It's very hard to take anything seriously from a group that has been falling over themselves to find reasons to try and "cancel" him, luckily the only tool they have in their playbook

An alternate take on this might be that Musk had an idea these things were coming and so made the comments about how he'd be getting canceled to get ahead of things PR-wise.

Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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I find it impossible to believe people actually think like this and aren't just aggressively defending something terrible because they are invested in the person's companies.

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Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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Between Elongate harassment, the steady stream of safe workplace violation claims in past years, and Elon now building a crack team of aggressive street fighter lawyers, it seems rather than correct the behaviors all accused entities are doubling down. What does it signal?

It signals that the man who sells a line of cars named "S3XY" likes sex a lot.

Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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I agree with this judge. People should be able to sue their employers if they get sexually harassed by their supervisors or coworkers. Mandatory arbitration is a bad idea.

I'd go a step further and say that binding arbitration clauses between employers and their employees probably shouldn't be allowed in general. Employer/employee disputes will frequently touch upon labor law, and should be heard by a court familiar with the relevant statutes -- not by a private-sector arbitrator.

Yeah I think that the agreement to enter arbitration should only be allowed _after_ the dispute in question as arisen. That way each side needs to gain something by entering into it.

Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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Between Elongate harassment, the steady stream of safe workplace violation claims in past years, and Elon now building a crack team of aggressive street fighter lawyers, it seems rather than correct the behaviors all accused entities are doubling down. What does it signal?

> and Elon now building a crack team of aggressive street fighter lawyers

Well he did promise that they would only fight for good and never for evil. And if I know Musk, he would never make a promise he wouldn't deliver on for 8 years and running. (dripping sarcasm)

Re: Tesla loses bid to move sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration

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I find it impossible to believe people actually think like this and aren't just aggressively defending something terrible because they are invested in the person's companies.

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It doesn't get any more "establishment" than (one of) the richest men on earth...
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