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Tesla Inc told employees without permission Friday that they will be out of work for at least another week, postponing a plan to resume normal operations on May 4 at its San Francisco vehicle assembly plant, according to an internal email.
FILE PHOTO: A view of Tesla Inc’s American vehicle factory in Fremont, California, USA. USA, March 18, 2020. REUTERS / Shannon Stapleton / File Photo
NEW YORK: Tesla Inc told employees without permission Friday (May 1) that they will be out of work for at least another week, postponing a plan to resume normal operations on May 4 at its San Francisco vehicle assembly plant. , according to an internal report. email.
“For suspended employees, unless your manager contacts you about a start date, it will remain on hold until further notice, for at least another week,” said the company’s internal adviser, Valerie Capers Workman, in the email that was sent. to employees and seen by Reuters.
Tesla discontinued production at its Fremont, California plant on March 24.
The extension comes days after San Francisco County health officials, along with five other Bay Area counties, said they would review the “shelter-in-place” orders that expire on Sunday.
New orders will maintain current restrictions and extend them through May, with limited facilitation for a small number of low-risk activities.
The company was not immediately available for a request for comment from Reuters.
The electric car maker suspended all nonessential workers last month and implemented pay cuts during the closure of its production facilities in the United States due to the coronavirus outbreak.
(Report by Aakriti Bhalla in Bangalore and Tina Bellon in New York; Edition by Stephen Coates)
