Tesla HR: There's 'no place for handicapped people at Tesla'

Tesla HR: There's 'no place for handicapped people at Tesla'

The brainchild of Elon Musk, Tesla, allegedly failed to prevent anti-gay harassment and unjustly fired an employee for seeking protection – The Guardian reports.

Jorge Ferro, 35, who began working as a production worker on a Tesla assembly line in 2016, claims that his supervisor threatened him with violence for being gay and consistently mocked him. After making a second complaint, according to his account, an HR representative took away Ferro’s badge, claiming that he had an “injury” that prevented him from working and told him there’s “no place for handicapped people at Tesla”, Ferro alleges.

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