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. One worker said that badge checks caused a two-hour wait for workers to enter Tesla’s Sparks, Nevada, factory on Monday morning. One worker reported that badge checks caused a two-hour wait for workers to enter Tesla’s Sparks, Nevada factory on Monday. The two Tesla workers claim that on Monday morning, officials sent back the workers who were laid off in separate vans. On Monday morning, the officials picked out the workers who’d been laid off and sent them back in separate vans, the two workers said.Business InsiderThree other former Tesla employees said workers at the Fremont factory were told by security that if their badges didn’t work, they were no longer employed.
Tesla employees who were terminated received notice via their personal emails on Sunday night, and their access to Tesla systems was revoked, four workers said. According to a copy viewed by BI, the companywide memo that Elon Musk wrote announcing these cuts arrived just before midnight PT Sunday. Unfortunately as a result, your position has been eliminated by this restructuring,”laying offread
a separate email notifying impacted employees they’d been laid off, according to a copy viewed by BI.
The email sent directly to laid-off staff
said the cuts would be effective immediately and workers would receive information regarding their severance within 48 hours.
The same day Tesla announced layoffs, at least
from the company. Drew Baglino and Rohan Patel both announced on X that they left Tesla by Sunday. Tesla had employed over before the layoffs. This included more than 3,000 workers at the factory in Nevada. Some former Google workers told BI that they found out they were laid off by accident when they tried to access their old workplace.