Tesla settles with former employee over racial discrimination claims

Owen Diaz sued the carmarker in 2017, and though no details are available earlier settlement numbers ranged from $3.2m to $137m

Tesla has settled with a former employee in a long-running discrimination case that drew attention to the electric vehicle maker's treatment of people of color.

Owen Diaz, who was awarded nearly $3.2m by a federal jury last April, reached a final, binding settlement agreement that fully resolves all claims", according to a document filed Friday with the US district court in San Francisco.