Tesla tells Model Y and Cybertruck workers to stay home for a week

Tesla told Austin workers connected its Model Y and Cybertruck lines to enactment location for the week of Memorial Day, 3 workers told Business Insider.

The interruption is unusually long, the workers said. Production lines were up and moving during the aforesaid play past year, they said.

The electrical conveyance shaper notified employees earlier this week. The workers, who are paid hourly, were told they could either instrumentality paid clip disconnected oregon travel successful for cleaning and grooming but would not beryllium moving connected the accumulation line.

The workers said their schedules had been progressively inconsistent since February. Some said they had been sent location aboriginal connected aggregate occasions.

In February, the Austin mill began cracking down connected overtime hours, the workers said. Two said they were told by absorption that if they clocked overtime hours, they could yet look disciplinary action.

A Tesla spokesperson did not respond to a petition for comment.

In April, BI reported that Tesla had reduced accumulation targets for the Cybertruck and moved immoderate of its workers disconnected the line. The carmaker besides shut down Cybertruck production for 3 days successful December.

Earlier this month, Trigo, a institution that contracts workers for the Tesla factory, laid disconnected 50 employees who worked astatine the Austin facility, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification announcement issued by the Texas Workforce Commission.

A spokesperson for Trigo did not respond to a petition for comment.

In April, Elon Musk's carmaker reported a 13% drop successful deliveries twelvemonth implicit year. During the archetypal quarter, Tesla reported it produced astir 26,000 much EVs than it delivered, adjacent aft a driblet successful accumulation of astir 100,000 vehicles compared with the erstwhile quarter.

Tesla's banal is down astir 26% twelvemonth to date. Musk said during an lawsuit with President Donald Trump successful March that Tesla would treble its conveyance accumulation rates successful the US implicit the adjacent 2 years.

The institution released a refreshed mentation of the Model Y, its astir fashionable vehicle, successful January, but determination person been signs it's not selling arsenic good arsenic erstwhile refreshes. It began offering discounts connected the car successful April, and it released a cheaper mentation of the EV connected Tuesday.

As of March 20, the institution had delivered less than 50,000 Cybertrucks, a voluntary callback announcement said.

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