A former Tesla manufacturing manager has filed a lawsuit against the electric car company alleging he was fired for reporting widespread safety violations and race discrimination at Tesla’s factories.
In the lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court on Friday, Mark Cage, an African American, claimed to have reported security breaches that threatened a massive explosion. Tesla’s Systematic failures to disclose serious injuries on the job by a battery factory and company in Nevada.
“Tesla’s commitment to unrealistic production goals and frantic efforts to ramp up its production, often to deliver hasty promises, override any commitment to employee safety,” the complaint said. stated in the complaint.
He also alleged that Tesla employees, with full knowledge of the company’s management, defame and harassed him on the basis of his race.
“Virtually every restroom at Tesla’s Fremont facility contained writings or engravings of racist symbols and slurs, including prominent displays of the swastika and the N-word,” Cage said in his complaint.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
A California state agency sued Tesla earlier this month over allegations that some black workers were subjected to racist slurs and images and the most physically demanding jobs at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California. The job was assigned.
That lawsuit, which Tesla called “misleading,” said the company tolerated racial discrimination, adding to claims made in several other lawsuits against the world’s most valuable automaker.
Tesla and its Chief Executive Officer, Elon Muskhas intensified a battle with regulators, who have probed his social media posts, dealings with company employees and testing semi-automatic driving systems on public roads.
Musk on Tuesday accused the US Securities and Exchange Commission of having a multi-layered “corruption onion”. A day earlier, the company accused the agency of leaking information from a Tesla-related investigation.
Tesla revealed earlier this month that it had received a subpoena from the SEC regarding compliance with a 2018 agreement over Musk’s tweets about taking the company private.
Last week, the company and Musk accused the SEC of harassing them with an investigation to punish Musk for being an outspoken critic of the government.
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