The carmaker and energy company settled with a Black man who had worked at its California factory and had won a $3 million judgment against the company.
President Biden seems nervous about sealing a deal that would improve the health and quality of life of millions of Americans through a stricter rule on truck emissions.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit accusing the carmaker of mistreating Black employees at its factory in California.
A former Tesla factory worker, who is Black, challenged a judge’s earlier award of $15 million, but came away with less in a new trial.
Cars promised liberation. They delivered something very different.
The suit comes months after a jury awarded a former Black employee at the electric carmaker’s San Francisco-area factory $137 million.
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