FREMONT (KPIX 5) – Tesla’s legal troubles continue to mount, as the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has confirmed to KPIX 5 that the agency is preparing to file a lawsuit against the carmaker.
The details of the complaint have not yet been made public, but the agency has been investigating claims at Tesla for several years, probing incidents from 2015-2019, according to Tesla.
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On Wednesday morning, Tesla broke the news first in a company blog post titled “The DFEH’s Misguided Lawsuit.”
“Over the past five years, the DFEH has been asked on almost 50 occasions by individuals who believe they were discriminated against or harassed to investigate Tesla. On every single occasion, when the DFEH closed an investigation, it did not find misconduct against Tesla. It therefore strains credibility for the agency to now allege, after a three-year investigation, that systematic racial discrimination and harassment somehow existed at Tesla. A narrative spun by the DFEH and a handful of plaintiff firms to generate publicity is not factual proof,” according to the blog post.
The state’s lawsuit is the latest in a string of lawsuits alleging rampant racism and sexual harassment.
In October, a jury awarded nearly $137 million to Owen Diaz, a former Tesla contractor who endured “daily racist epithets.”
The following month, a production assistant at the Fremont plant filed a lawsuit alleging daily sexual harassment.
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