On Sunday, two former Tesla employees filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker, alleging the company failed to provide the 60-day notice required by federal law during a recent round of layoffs.
This is the latest in a recent series of lawsuits filed by former employees against Tesla, but the first since CEO Elon Musk warned on June 2 that a looming economic downturn would force the company to lay off 10% of its workforce.
after the news Elon Musk According to TechCrunch, in an interview with Bloomberg News, the Qatar Economic Forum revised the plan and changed the plan to just over 3% of the layoffs.
Tesla sued for mass layoffs
The lawsuit claims status class action for Tesla employees laid off in the United States in May or June without the 60-day notice required by the Worker Change and Retraining Notice Act and wages and benefits for the 60-day notice period.
Earlier this month, Musk said in internal emails that he had “super bad feeling” about the economy.
Tesa is an automaker and its subsidiaries employed just under 100,000 people in 2021, according to the annual report. This includes personnel at its factories and facilities in Austin and Sparks, Nevada, as well as in Buffalo, New York, Fremont, California, Berlin and Shanghai.
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