Tesla Loses Bid to End EEOC Racial Harassment, Retaliation Suit

Tesla Inc. must face EEOC allegations that the automaker subjected Black employees at its Fremont, California, manufacturing facilities to severe racial harassment since May 2015, a federal judge ruled.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s factual allegations are sufficient to support the inference the alleged racial harassment was severe enough to “pollute” Tesla’s Fremont plant and create an abusive workplace for Black employees, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said in a decision released late Friday.

The ruling, which came one day after a hearing on Tesla’s request to dismiss the ...