US jury orders Tesla to pay 35 mn to worker over racial abuse

San Francisco, April 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Elon Musk-run Tesla has been ordered to pay $3.2 million to a worker over his racist treatment at the company. A San Francisco jury ordered the electric car-maker to pay Owen Diaz who previously worked as an elevator operator at Tesla. Diaz worked at the company’s Fremont factory from June 2015 to May 2016 as a contract worker hired by a staffing company, about what was described as “racial abuse”. In 2021, a jury ordered Tesla to pay $137 million in damages to Diaz, which was slashed to $15 million in April last year, calling…