Just a few days ago, Elon Musk stood before his investors to confirm fears of an unprecedented drop in Tesla profits in the last ten years, driven by a decline in demand and reduced sales margins.
Despite everything, the company continues with its restructuring plans to reduce expensessomething that seems to have the approval of investors who have caused a slight rebound in the value of the company’s shares by 2% despite the poor financial results.
First round of layoffs at Tesla gigafactory in Austin
Sources of Reuters They claim that Tesla’s cost-saving plans involve reducing 10% of the company’s total workforce, which currently has 140,000 employees around the world. At the moment, a first round of layoffs of 6,020 employees in Texas and California has been put on the table.
From that first round, I already know has confirmed the dismissal of 2,688 employees of the Tesla gigafactory in Austin (Texas) in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which companies with more than 100 employees are required to notify 60 days in advance. layoffs in advance.
Austin’s local media Fox 7 publishes that the official notice of the staff reduction has come after some employees received emails in the wee hours of the morning, informing them that they were no longer part of the company. Some even showed up for work that morning only to discover that their login credentials had been revoked.
The email sent to employees who had been laid off detailed that His last day of work had been Sunday, April 14.but in compliance with WARN regulations, his employment contract would not expire until June 14, thus complying with the 60-day period provided for in the law.
The layoffs announced at the Texas factory represent the 12% of your local workforcewhich has a total of 22,777 employees in Austin, including those who work at the production plant and at Tesla’s headquarters in the city.
Personnel adjustment is not the only problem that Tesla must face in the coming weeks. The electric car manufacturer must face a recall of its Cybertruck due to a problem with the accelerator pedal, which adds another blow to the wheels of the company led by Elon Musk.
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