Tesla Racial Harassment Suit Should Go Forward, EEOC Tells Court

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a federal judge to keep an agency lawsuit alleging Elon Musk‘s Tesla Inc. fostered a racially hostile and abusive work environment for Black workers.

The federal civil rights agency sued Tesla in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in September, alleging widespread race-based harassment and retaliation against Black workers at the company’s Fremont, Calif., facility. Tesla responded seeking to dismiss the complaint in December, arguing the EEOC didn’t name a single victim or perpetrator.

The automaker said the EEOC hasn’t provided enough detail about the Black workers. However, ...