A Tesla employee filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the electric-carmaker of retaliation and failing to prevent “a pattern of continuous and pervasive” sexual harassment at its Fremont factory, Businessinsider Reports.
The lawsuit claimed that she confronted “sexual harassment on a near-daily basis” from her former supervisor. It additionally stated the supervisor would “get on his knees and propose marriage”, in addition to “hug and massage” her.
She rejected the advances on a number of events.
In the spring of 2020, the supervisor allegedly instructed Cloud “on several occasions that she is ‘blackenese’ and he ‘is big down there’”, in response to the lawsuit.
Cloud accused the electrical automotive maker of failing to forestall “a pattern of continuous and pervasive” sexual harassment at its Fremont manufacturing facility in California.
Tesla was but to touch upon the second lawsuit that has been filed within a month.
A feminine Tesla worker final month filed a lawsuit in opposition to the corporate, accusing the automaker of making hostile work surroundings the place sexual harassment was “rampant”.
According to a report in The Washington Post, Jessica Barraza, a manufacturing affiliate who works on the Tesla Model 3, stated in a lawsuit that she was subjected to fixed harassment on the Tesla’s manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, “including catcalling and inappropriate physical touching”.
“After almost three years of experiencing all the harassment, it robs your sense of security — it almost dehumanizes you,” she was quoted as saying within the report.
The lawsuit alleged “rampant sexual harassment at Tesla,” alleging “nightmarish conditions” and a manufacturing facility ground that “more resembles a crude, archaic construction site or frat house than a cutting-edge company in the heart of the progressive San Francisco Bay area”.
Tesla produces its Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y electrical automobiles on the Fremont plant.
In October, Tesla was ordered to pay $137 million to a former contractor on the identical plant, who alleged he was subjected to racial harassment.
