Elon Musk calls diversity, equity, inclusion ‘propaganda’

The billionaire is chief govt officer and the most important shareholder of Tesla, the electric-vehicle maker which has boasted that underrepresented teams make up the majority of its US workforce. The corporate didn’t reply to requests for touch upon Musk’s views, made on the social-media platform X, which he owns.

Tesla, with headquarters in Austin and factories in California, Nevada, Texas and New York, printed its first ever Diversity, Equity and Inclusion report in December 2020. Extra just lately, DEI efforts have been a part of the EV maker’s annual impression report.

“We’re proud to be a majority-minority firm with a big illustration of staff from communities which have lengthy struggled to interrupt via the historic roadblocks to equal alternative within the U.S.,” says the corporate’s 2022 Impact Report.

Tesla has held hiring occasions focusing on ladies and college students of Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Establishments, in addition to a number of inner occasions to rejoice worker variety. It additionally has a number of Worker Useful resource Teams and the corporate in 2022 launched a nationwide inner DEI e-newsletter.

In February 2022, California’s civil rights company sued Tesla for “rampant racism” on behalf of Black employees on the firm’s Fremont manufacturing facility. In September, the federal Equal Employment Alternative Fee additionally sued Tesla for subjecting Black employees “to extreme or pervasive racial harassment.”

“Inclusion is everybody’s accountability,” Tesla stated in its impression report. “From day one throughout onboarding, staff are uncovered to our Range, Fairness and Inclusion (DEI) ideas and are inspired to affix Worker Useful resource Teams (ERGs) — led by passionate people who care about creating a powerful neighborhood expertise inside Tesla.”