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- Former Tesla factory workers filed a proposed class action lawsuit in California on Thursday.
- Two former workers allege Tesla violated labor laws under California law, Reuters reported.
- Tesla is also facing a racial discrimination lawsuit and a wrongful death suit.
Tesla is in trouble — again.
Former employees accused the auto company of violating labor laws in a proposed class action lawsuit filed in federal court in California on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Two workers previously employed at Tesla's assembly plant in Fremont are demanding over $5 million in damages in the proposed civil suit, which they hope will represent thousands of Tesla employees.
The unnamed employees accuse the company of failing to pay overtime and sick time, failing to reimburse employees for work expenses, failing to provide adequate breaks, and failing to give employees written quotes of their expected output, according to Reuters.
The lawsuit comes as Tesla faces racial harassment and discrimination claims in another complaint brought against the company by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. That complaint says the company allowed harassment against Black workers in its California plants.
The company is also set to go to trial next week over a lawsuit brought by the family of an Apple engineer who died after his Model X crashed while in autopilot.
Wei "Walter" Huang's family claims in the lawsuit that the autopilot design is defective and responsible for Huang's death. Tesla plans to call a second Apple engineer as a witness in the trial to testify that Huang was playing a game on his phone when the car crashed, according to court records.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on Friday.