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A former Tesla employee named Hans Kohls, who is deaf and uses hearing aids, says the company fired him after he asked to be moved to a different part of the Austin Gigafactory. He worked in the casting area where molten aluminum reaches very high temperatures, and he says the heat kept damaging his hearing aids.
Kohls asked to transfer to a cooler department as an accommodation. The lawsuit says Tesla did not look into other options such as visual alerts or vibrating alarms, and removed him from work nine days later under a “medical separation.” Kohls says this acted as discrimination, caused financial and emotional harm, and he is now seeking reinstatement or back pay along with damages.
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