In their lawsuit, the former employees are demanding wages and benefits for 60 days.
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san francisco The US electric car maker Tesla is being pilloried in Texas on suspicion of mass layoffs without observing the notice period. Two former workers said they were fired in June at the Sparks Gigafactory without notice, according to the lawsuit filed Monday.
Accordingly, Tesla put more than 500 employees on the street in June. According to the US labor law (“Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act”), a 60-day notice period is required for such a mass layoff. “Tesla merely notified employees that their terminations would be effective immediately,” the lawsuit reads. The former employees are pursuing a class action lawsuit. Tesla could not immediately be reached for comment.
The former employees are demanding wages and benefits for the 60 days. “It is quite shocking that Tesla so blatantly violates federal labor laws by firing so many workers without meeting the required deadline,” attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, representing the plaintiffs, told Reuters. Tesla is offering some employees a severance package equal to one week’s wages. You are therefore preparing an emergency application so that the group cannot buy its way out with the low severance payment. Tesla boss Elon Musk announced earlier this month that he would cut thousands of jobs at the electric car manufacturer for fear of a recession.
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