Six women working at a Tesla factory and service center in California have filed lawsuits against the employer. They claim that they were regularly harassed by male colleagues in the workplace.
Less than a month ago, similar lawsuits were filed by two more women working at Tesla, according to The Washington Post.
In lawsuits filed with the California High Court in Alameda County, women allege that their colleagues often made obscene remarks about their figures or clothes, tried to touch their private parts, and insulted with obscene gestures or words. Women, they said, had to take measures to hide their figures under shapeless clothes or block their workplaces with some kind of boxes so as not to be visible.
All their complaints to the personnel department about this situation did not give anything except that these workers themselves were transferred to another area of work.
At the same time, the plaintiffs argue, the culture of harassment is supported by Elon Musk himself. Women note that when the head of Tesla publishes not quite decent jokes or expressions on Twitter, men around them begin to behave even worse towards their female colleagues. For example, when the release of Model Y was announced, Elon Musk wrote the acronym “S3XY” on Twitter, that is, he listed the Tesla car models, but in such a way that the word “sexy” is added. Or, according to the plaintiffs, the head of Tesla likes to mention “69” (sex position – “B”), “420” (used in slang for marijuana use. – “B”) and similar slang.
As Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe’s attorney, David Lowe, who represents the plaintiffs, explained, “At the center of these cases is Elon Musk, who tweets obscene comments about a woman’s body or taunts about employees who report wrongful behavior in the workplace, and this the attitude of the leadership encourages an atmosphere of sexual harassment. “
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