• Tesla Elon Musk Tesla must face lawsuit alleging it replaced laid-off US workers with H-1B visa holders A federal judge has ruled that Tesla must face a class-action lawsuit alleging the automaker systematically discriminated against American workers by preferring H-1B visa holders for engineering positions, even as it laid off more than 6,000 US employees in 2024 • District Judge Vince Chhabria said the plaintiff had offered “just enough facts” for the case to proceed, though he expressed skepticism about the strength of the claims • The ruling Software engineer Scott Taub filed the proposed class action in September 2025, alleging Tesla passed him over for an engineering job as part of a broader “systematic preference” to hire foreign visa holders in violation of federal civil rights law • Taub claims a recruiter for a staffing company told him the engineering position he sought was “H-1B only • " Judge Chhabria, in a brief order issued late Monday, allowed Taub’s claims to move forward • The lawsuit alleges that Tesla hired an estimated 1,355 H-1B visa holders in 2024 whilelaying off more than 6,000 workers domestically, with the vast majority of those let go believed to be U

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  • A federal judge has ruled that Tesla must face a class-action lawsuit alleging the automaker systematically discriminated against American workers by preferring H-1B visa holders for engineering positions, even as it laid off more than 6,000 US employees in 2024. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said the plaintiff had offered “just enough facts” for the case to proceed, though he expressed skepticism about the strength of the claims. The ruling Software engineer Scott Taub filed the proposed class action in September 2025, alleging Tesla passed him over for an engineering job as part of a br

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