Tesla to pay $3.2M to Black ex-worker in racial discrimination suit.

A Black former elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont factory, Owen Diaz, has had his payout in a racial bias lawsuit reduced from $15 million to $3.2 million. Tesla has been ordered to pay Diaz $175,000 in damages for emotional distress and $3 million in punitive damages. Diaz first sued Tesla in 2017, claiming the company failed to act when he repeatedly complained to managers about employees frequently calling him racist slurs and drawing swastikas and racist caricatures on walls and work areas. Diaz and his lawyers rejected the $15 million, which included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $13.5 million in punitive damages, claiming it was unjust and wouldn’t deter future misconduct from Tesla.