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Tesla must pay $137 million to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism
CNBC (cash no big consideration) ^
| Monday, October 4, 2021
| Lora Kolodny
Posted on 10/05/2021 8:46:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
- A San Francisco federal court decided Monday that Tesla must pay a former worker, Owen Diaz, about $137 million after he endured a hostile work environment and racist abuse working there as an elevator operator.
- According to his attorneys, the case was only able to move forward because Diaz had not signed one of Tesla’s mandatory arbitration agreements which the company uses to force employees to resolve disputes without a public trial.
- A shareholder activist, Nia Impact Capital, has asked Tesla’s board to study the effects of mandatory arbitration agreements on the company, voicing concern that they enable harassment and other problems.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: alameda; california; elonmusk; fremont; niaimpactcapital; owendiaz; perjury; sanfrancisco; southafrica; tesla; wetback
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:46:39 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:47:12 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Where can I go to work to get harassed for $137 million?
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:49:00 AM PDT
by
Fish Speaker
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: SunkenCiv
Tesla make self-driving cars — but still uses elevator operators?
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:49:09 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Elon will just tap the Federal subsidy he gets. $137M? No problem...the taxpayers will pay the tab.
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:49:17 AM PDT
by
USAF1985
(Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct!)
To: SunkenCiv
Sounds a little excessive.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:50:11 AM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
To: SunkenCiv
Elevator operator? In a company working on self driving cars?
To: SunkenCiv
An elevator operator? Are we still in the 1950s?
To: USAF1985
Elon will just tap the Federal subsidy he gets. $137M? No problem...the taxpayers will pay the tab.
I just don't understand the hate you freaks have for Elon. He has done more to advance technology in many areas the any human currently on the planet. And for the most part he has done it with his own money. I guess haters gonna hate.
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:55:08 AM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(2020: The year of unreported truths. )
To: SunkenCiv
Despicable! I mean the figure. If he was,in fact,treated badly that's not good.But it's not worth $137 million...or even $137 thousand.
To: SunkenCiv
1.Him and his homies use the word amongst themselves fifty times a day I bet.
2.In my experience people like him who are excessively bullied at work did something to bring it on. Brown noser to the boss, snitch/tattle tale, backstabbers etc.
3. I bet it was hispanics who bullied him.
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:56:28 AM PDT
by
setter
To: plain talk; BenLurkin
I’m thinking this wasn’t a normal passenger elevator, but perhaps a construction or freight elevator.
I would hope such an absurd judgement would be significantly reduced on appeal. That’s likely a multiple of his expected lifetime earnings. Ridiculous.
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:56:40 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: SunkenCiv
I did expert witness testimony as an economist for almost four decades, but this settlement is ridiculous.
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:57:32 AM PDT
by
econjack
(I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
To: Fish Speaker
“Where can I go to work to get harassed for $137 million?”
They can call me every anti white derogatory term for that kind of money.
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:59:01 AM PDT
by
setter
To: SunkenCiv
San Francisco trial and jury!
Odds of this ‘award’ staying at this amount are very slim. Yes, this gent will PROBABLY have a good reward, but after arguments and appeals, it is likely to be much lower.
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posted on
10/05/2021 8:59:13 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
To: USAF1985
Gee, how will that work? It won’t because you’re just talking out of your ass.
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posted on
10/05/2021 9:01:23 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
F’ng joke. The company is not responsible/liable for any derogatory social interaction between its employees, nor does it encourage it, nor in any way does it deliberately foster a hostile environment. Tesla can only be an arbitrator, not a policeman for alleged complaints of hostility between its employees.
$137 million is absolutely absurd and exploitative against Tesla when they in no way are responsible for that cry-baby’s hurt feelings and/or his ‘CHOICE’ to continue subjecting himself to what he felt was abusive behavior.
That clown could have made formal complaints to address hostility towards him... or he could have QUIT and worked somewhere else he felt it would solve the problem and put him in an environment he could feel secure.
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posted on
10/05/2021 9:01:27 AM PDT
by
Bellagio
To: Fish Speaker
Not sure, but if I knew, I’d go there because I don’t get paid here. ;^)
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posted on
10/05/2021 9:02:02 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: JoSixChip
What I don’t understand is how the high tech cars can be based on a battery design consisting of only 7,000 AA penlight batteries wired together with all those single point failures.
The basic battery design is no better than what is in my 25 year-old cordless drill.
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posted on
10/05/2021 9:03:13 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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