Black SpaceX technician says in lawsuit he was fired for being late while white workers' tardiness was ignored

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

A Black technician at SpaceX was fired for being late to work while caring for his young daughter as she recuperated from a heart transplant, while his white colleagues were given a pass for their own “consistent tardiness and absences,” according to an eye-popping workplace discrimination lawsuit obtained by The Independent.

In a 33-page federal complaint initially filed in Los Angeles and removed to federal court on June 25, L’Tavious Rice says his bosses at the commercial space launch provider were fully aware of his daughter's medical condition, and “encouraged him to take time off as needed.”

Yet, Rice’s complaint alleges, the SpaceX Human Resources department soon began ginning up issues with his time-off requests in retaliation for him having agreed, in principle, to testify truthfully about a former supervisor that another employee had accused of wrongdoing in an unrelated incident.

Rice, 38, worked as a materials inspector at the SpaceX campus in Hawthorne, California, ensuring the structural integrity of materials such as base metals, welds, structures and assemblies. His complaint also accuses SpaceX of denying him proper meal breaks, and “expected him to work through lunch.”

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/spacex-elon-musk-workplace-discrimination-b2780744.html

[rogue emissary]

1. For years Tesla has lost multi-million dollars racial discrimination lawsuits.

Musk lost those suits because they can directly blame his guidance and the the atmosphere he creates. Most lawsuits like these fail. As the company just throughs some of the employees under the bus as "bad actors."

[catrose]

2. Sounds like Eloooon