India, Sept. 14 -- The electric vehicle company Tesla, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is reportedly being sued for favouring H1-B visa holders over Americans for employment in the company. According to the lawsuit, Tesla hires H1-B visa holders so it can pay them less.

A class action has been filed in San Francisco federal court stating that Tesla has violated federal civil rights law through its "systematic preference" to hire visa holders at the same time firing US citizens at a disproportionate rate compared to the visa holders, news agency Reuters reported.

The lawsuit was brought by a software engineer named Scott Taub and a human resource specialist, Sofia Brander, who said that Tesla refused to hire them after realising that they ...