A black former worker at a California assembly plant has turned down a multimillion dollar settlement from the company. The worker was given two weeks to accept the award that was slashed from the jury verdict.
The rejection of the award will lead to a new trial, rather than closing the book on the case. The company is in the middle of many lawsuits. The lawsuit was filed by two former employees who claimed that the company didn't give them 60 days' advance notice of its layoffs. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing's case against the automaker for, again, racial discrimination and harassment, is one of the high-profile suits.
The lawyers for Diaz said that the award was unjust and would not deter future misdeeds by the company.
In rejecting the court's excessive reduction by asking for a new trial, Mr.Diaz is again asking a jury of his peers to evaluate whatTesla did to him and to provide just compensation for the torrent of racist slurs that was directed at him.
The jury award was lowered by the district judge. The judge denied the motion for a new trial as long as the lower award was accepted by the other party.
During his time as an elevator operator at the plant, he was called racist slurs, caricatures and swastikas by his co-workers, and he is now trying to get compensation from the company.
In the past, the company has responded to claims of racial and sexual harassment by saying the company has policies in place to prevent and address workplace malfeasance. One investor who filed a lawsuit last week accusing Musk and the board of directors of neglecting worker complaints and allowing for a toxic workplace culture did not change his mind.
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