Tesla loses bid to move 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 at the firm's flagship meeting plant to private arbitration, allowing it to move ahead in court.
California Superior Court docket Judge Stephen Kaus in Oakland denied Tesla's motion to compel arbitration in a quick order on Monday.
In a written opinion released on Tuesday, Kaus said Tesla had improperly pressured the plaintiff, Jessica Barraza, to signal an arbitration agreement after she had already quit her previous job.
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"Basically, Barraza was ambushed," the judge wrote.
Barraza in the lawsuit filed in November claims employees and supervisors on the Fremont, California plant routinely made lewd comments and gestures to female staff, and that the company failed to handle complaints.
The lawsuit is one in all at least seven pending in California state courtroom to make similar claims against Tesla. Kaus is presiding over five extra of these cases.
Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request for touch upon Tuesday.
David Lowe, a lawyer for Barraza, known as the decision "a victory for public accountability."
"Because of this ruling... Tesla might be judged by a jury of Ms. Barraza's friends in a public courtroom," Lowe mentioned in an announcement.
Along with the pending sexual harassment claims, Tesla is going through separate lawsuits accusing it of tolerating widespread race discrimination at its vegetation. A California judge last month awarded $15 million to a Black former manufacturing facility employee who stated he was subjected to racist slurs and graffiti from coworkers. learn extra
Tesla has mentioned it doesn't tolerate harassment and has disciplined and fired employees who engaged in misconduct.
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Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien
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