Owen Diaz, the Black former elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont factory, has seen his payout in a racial bias lawsuit slashed from $15 million to $3.2 million.
Monday’s verdict from a federal jury in San Francisco came after a week-long trial, in which Tesla was once again found to have failed to prevent severe racial harassment at its flagship assembly plant. The EV-maker has been ordered to pay Diaz, who worked at the factory as an elevator operator, $175,000 in damages for emotional distress and $3 million in punitive damages that are designed to punish unlawful conduct and deter future cases.
Diaz first sued Tesla in 2017, claiming the company failed to act when he repeatedly complained to managers about employees freque …
