Tesla Is Allegedly Withholding Wages Of German Employees On Sick Leave

https://carbuzz.com/tesla-allegedly-withholding-wages-german-sick-leave/

by Wagamaga

37 comments

  1. Amid a streak of absenteeism at its Grünheide, Brandenburg, factory in Germany, Tesla has reportedly withheld pay from its employees on medical leave. As reported by German newspaper Handelsblatt, the automaker sent mass letters to employees who have called in sick, which expressed doubts as to the veracity of their claims of illness or injury. Not only that, but Tesla also asked said employees to divulge their diagnoses and release their doctors from their “duty of confidentiality.” The Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory produces the company’s battery cells, as well as the Tesla Model Y.

  9. Seize musks factories, make our own EVs there. Put 250 trillion fine on his ass in EU – if he refuses to pay, declare him an international terrorist in Interpol across all EU countries. Done.

  10. Did they not learn anything from the Walmart-Germany debacle?

  15. Why are American companies so idiotic? This hasn’t worked out in Walmart’s favour in Germany 20 years ago, why should it now for Tesla?

    Do they not ever learn? All this is, is a waste of money.

  17. Why do American companies despise workers rights so much? It’s like sick leave and, heaven forbid, annual leave are alien concepts.

    Don’t like European employment law? Tough fucking luck!

  18. I’m certain they will push for US companies being under US labour law and not that of the respective countries they operate in.

    We have to stand firm!

    E: A word

  21. Funny he just fires American staff without remorse or penalty. Then hires foreigners at 1/3 the cost while forcing them into 12-15hr work days.

  23. It will be an amusing situation to watch from a distance. Could the facility be shut down by the courts for labour law violations?

  24. Get Swasticar out of Germany.

    And Europe.

    There are enough alternative EV companies to buy cars from.

  25. doubtful. We Europeans have a very long tradition of labour laws that are extremely penalizing towards employers who voilate it. And paid sick leave has been around for a very long time.

  26. Oooh that fucker is playing with union fire here.

    Cant wait to see European tesla strikes spread like wildfire if this turns out to be true.

    Knowing Elon being sad ay this very moment, is near unparralelled nourishment for the soul.

  27. Tesla still didn’t understand employees outside of USA have actual rights…

    They’ll understand that soon.

  28. That will help sales. “At Tesla we cherish our workers that much that we don’t pay them while they are on holiday”

  29. I dont get it. I am sure that they have german lawyers or any other expert that advise them and those people know that this is not working in germany. They are not stupid. Im just wondering whats the point if they know they are going to loose the case in court.

  30. every day it becomes even more of a crying shame that Nikola’s name is forever associated with this wretched company.

  31. A simple doctors note should suffice. Oh I’m sure Tesla will be surprised to see that employees actually have rights

  32. Why are American corporations so stupid as to open a business in Europe without doing any research on our very strict labour laws and try to treat us like their US-slave labour? Are they daft? Tesla is not the first (and probably not the last) one who’ll be burnt. Most European workers are very knowledgeable about their rights too.

    Anyway, every time I read a story like this I thank heaven that I was not born in the USA.

  33. I guess Elon doesn’t really want his giga-factory anymore. Germany doesn’t fk around when it comes to this type of crap. Unlike in America – laws have meaning.

  34. If they withheld the wages, they also do not pay health insurance. German health insurances absolutely hate not being paid, they are really fast with appropriate measures. And this can get really ugly really fast.

  36. I’ve never been harmful to anyone …

    Evil as it comes.

  37. Elon wants to escalate.
    He won’t pay them, to start a strike or to get the government to intervene. Then he will cry to Donald and Trump will blackmail Germany:
    “Let Elon treat them like slaves or
    – I will not protect you anymore”
    – I will remove the nukes”
    – I will tell Russia to invade you”

    Something like that. Elon is really that despicable….

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