'Daily' slurs | Tesla HR boss HITS BACK online after firm's £100m racial abuse payout

Tesla has been ordered to pay more than £100m for failing to stop a black former worker from being racially abused, the BBC reports.

The electric car maker must pay the eye-watering sum, equivalent to around $137m, to Owen Diaz, who worked as a lift operator at the firm’s plant in San Francisco between 2015 and 2016.

The lawsuit on behalf of Diaz, who was not a Tesla employee but was contracted to their site by agency Citistaff, alleged African-American workers "encountered a scene straight from the Jim Crow era" at the Fremont factory.

The suit added that colleagues used racial epithets "daily" and told Mr Diaz to "go back to Africa", according to the BBC, adding that "Tesla's progressive image was a facade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees.”