Tesla loses bid to maneuver sexual harassment lawsuit to arbitration
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2022-05-26 02:52:17
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May 24 (Reuters) - A California state judge has rejected Tesla Inc's (TSLA.O) bid to send a lawsuit alleging widespread sexual harassment on the firm's flagship assembly plant to non-public arbitration, allowing it to move forward in court docket.
California Superior Court Choose Stephen Kaus in Oakland denied Tesla's motion to compel arbitration in a brief order on Monday.
In a written opinion released on Tuesday, Kaus stated Tesla had improperly pressured the plaintiff, Jessica Barraza, to sign an arbitration agreement after she had already give up her earlier job.
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"Mainly, Barraza was ambushed," the decide wrote.
Barraza within the lawsuit filed in November claims employees and supervisors at the Fremont, California plant routinely made lewd feedback and gestures to feminine employees, and that the company failed to handle complaints.
The lawsuit is one in every of at the least seven pending in California state court to make related claims towards Tesla. Kaus is presiding over 5 extra of these circumstances.
Tesla did not instantly respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
David Lowe, a lawyer for Barraza, referred to as the choice "a victory for public accountability."
"Because of this ruling... Tesla will likely be judged by a jury of Ms. Barraza's peers in a public courtroom," Lowe stated in a statement.
Together with the pending sexual harassment claims, Tesla is facing separate lawsuits accusing it of tolerating widespread race discrimination at its crops. A California choose final month awarded $15 million to a Black former manufacturing facility employee who stated he was subjected to racist slurs and graffiti from coworkers. read extra
Tesla has said it doesn't tolerate harassment and has disciplined and fired staff who engaged in misconduct.
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Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York, Modifying by Rosalba O'Brien
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