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Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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Re: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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Do you think racism in the work place is ok? How about sexism? Why not homophobia as well? Does smacking the butt of your female coworker really deserve compensation? Where do you draw the line or do you think it should all be ok in the workplace?

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tesla broke california discrimination laws, it has nothing to do with being mean. don't do the crime, etc etc

Re: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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You have to go through 8 years of court sitting stress for those $3 million. From that perspective it is a sensible sum.

And the way I see it, somebody has to fight injustice. Otherwise laws are meaningless. This guy did it, and that is his reward. We all benefit.

I would like to see you take on a lawsuit against a multi billion dollar corporation. Do you think it would be a piece of cake?

Re: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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If you've reviewed the facts in this case, and that's what you took from it, then I seriously question your reading comprehension ability.

They were looking for their angle and found it. Reading was not part of the process.

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Re: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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Do you think racism in the work place is ok? How about sexism? Why not homophobia as well? Does smacking the butt of your female coworker really deserve compensation? Where do you draw the line or do you think it should all be ok in the workplace?

If something is not OK, can there not be a penalty for it which is also not OK?

Re: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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tesla broke california discrimination laws, it has nothing to do with being mean. don't do the crime, etc etc

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You didn't even read anything about the case!

Re: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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> Tesla has denied the charges that the situation was as bad as alleged in the two suits, but it has admitted there were problems which needed to be addressed at the plant [...] We do recognize that in 2015 and 2016 we were not perfect. We’re still not perfect. But we have come a long way from 5 years ago. Discrimination lawsuits are not exactly an easy thing to win, it usually becomes unbearable long before it's ove…

The suit is regarding discrimination that occurred in 2015-2016; the VP was saying that they had improved since then rather than that they had improved for 5 years to get to that point.

Re: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

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> The case was brought by Owen Diaz, who worked as an elevator operator at the plant. He reported he regularly heard racial slurs, including the N-word, on the Fremont factory floor, and saw racist graffiti in bathrooms and a racially insensitive cartoon. Why misrepresent something when the truth is only a click away? But besides that, everyone here knows that you know that the value isn't about damages suffered per…

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