Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week
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#2Wow love to here the inside scoop on this. Anyone from Tesla want to comment. Accountability for late shipments?
Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week
#3To give a scale, Tesla has more than 30 000 employees [1]. That is just a little above 1%.
[1] https://electrek.co/2017/06/01/tesla-elon-musk-employees-har...
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#4It’s interesing that the company can just decide not to report this as a mass layoff. While the performance reasons for letting someone go may be true, it seems like an easily exploitable loophole.
Model 3 production rates were missed by a wide margin, so at least a few people should have known that management would react.
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#5If you read this article about some of the cheap labor they used. I wonder has this anything to do with some of the Investigations the DOJ is doing in to work visa abuse?
## Article about imported Labor. http://extras.mercurynews.com/silicon-valley-imported-labor/
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#6"Tesla has a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board in November for charges that company supervisors and security guards harassed workers distributing union literature. Tesla denied the accusations. Openly pro-union workers were among those fired this week. Some believe they were targeted." - Local paper http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/
Edit: Added more lines from the preceding paragraph
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#7Gaming industry style? Milestone reached, instead of thank you, get off my lawn?
Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week
#8It’s interesing that the company can just decide not to report this as a mass layoff. While the performance reasons for letting someone go may be true, it seems like an easily exploitable loophole. Model 3 production rates were missed by a wide margin, so at least a few people should have known that management would react.
Do public company actually have an obligation to report mass layoffs?
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#9"Tesla has a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board in November for charges that company supervisors and security guards harassed workers distributing union literature. Tesla denied the accusations. Openly pro-union workers were among those fired this week. Some believe they were targeted." - Local paper http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/ Edit: Added more lines from the preceding paragraph
> pro-union workers were among those fired this week. Some believe they were targeted
I hate sneakily-worded sentences like this.
Also among them, were women, hetrosexuals, and probably one or two Vietnam veterans. Some believe they were targetted.
Re: Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week
#10Wow love to here the inside scoop on this. Anyone from Tesla want to comment. Accountability for late shipments?
Or it could just be trimming some fat.