Tesla Settles Some Worker Racism Claims as Bigger Trial Looms

Tesla Inc. reached an agreement to settle several workers’ claims alleging pervasive anti-Black racism at one of its California plants, while the company still faces a jury trial in a broader case brought by the state’s civil rights enforcement agency.

The electric-vehicle maker’s accord with three workers was disclosed Wednesday in a court filing, averting a series of trials that were set to start earlier this week in state court in Oakland. Terms and conditions in the settlement remain confidential and the filing said claims by two other workers are still pending.

For almost a decade, the company headed by ...