Black California workers can seek injunction forcing Tesla to address racism, state Supreme Court rules
The unanimous ruling allows Black workers at a Tesla assembly plant in Fremont to seek a public injunction requiring theThis is the first time such a ruling has been made in California under the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act, per an emailed statement from attorneys for the plaintiffs.
A lower court ruled in January that two Black employees are allowed to sue Tesla for damages instead of going the arbitration route inAs part of the ruling, they were also allowed to request a public injunction forcing Tesla to modify its treatment of workers and this was upheld on Wednesday.A federal jury in San Francisco last week awarded $3.
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