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Owen Diaz vs Tesla: Tesla ordered to pay more than $3 million to black ex-employee in racial discrimination lawsuit

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Olivia House

Published Feb 06, 2026

On Monday, April 3, Tesla engines was requested to may more than $3 million to dark previous worker Owen Diaz in a racial separation claim. As per the New York Post, the last option guaranteed that the organization neglected to act when a few of its workers purportedly exposed him to racial badgering. Tesla President Elon Musk has, in any case, has kept on denying the claims.

As indicated by CNBC, Owen Diaz worked at Tesla as a lift administrator. He asserted that representatives at Tesla’s Fremont, California office, regularly utilized racial slurs to allude to him. He added that they would likewise spray painting insignias and racial personifications on the walls of the work environment.

As per the most recent judgment, Diaz was granted $175,000 in penalties for close to home misery and $3 million in reformatory harms.

In an authority explanation, Diaz’s attorney, Bernard Alexander, said that the racial maltreatment experienced by his client has prompted long haul close to home harm, expressing:

“Mr. Diaz’s point of view toward the world has been for all time changed. That happens when you remove an individual’s security.”

Diaz let members of the jury know that during the nine months he worked at the Fremont manufacturing plant in 2015, he encountered outrageous tension because of the manner in which different representatives would act towards him. He added that his relationship with his child, who he persuaded to come work at the plant, crumbled subsequently. Bernard Alexander, an offended party for the situation, denounced the organization for not acting, adding:

While Elon rambles on about division, hate and dirty tricks here's Owen Diaz who won a lawsuit against Tesla because of racial discrimination.

— Dripped Out Trade Unionists (@UnionDrip) May 19, 2022

Tesla legal counselors contended that assuming that Owen Diaz was confronting separation, he ought to have stopped an objection with the bosses at that point. Diaz said that he had raised the issue, yet was over and over disregarded by the organization’s directors. Formally, the organization has a zero resilience strategy towards bigotry.

Chief Elon Musk, then again, said that he comprehended the reason why the members of the jury had settled on a choice for Owen Diaz. That’s what he added assuming Tesla’s protection group got the opportunity to introduce proof in an unexpected way, the case would have changed course.

As per CNN, the claim against the organization is one of the best in American history.