Tesla told Austin workers on its Y model lines and Cybertruck to stay at home for Memorial Day week, three workers at Business Insider said.
The break is unusually long, workers said. The production lines were operational during the same period last year, they said.
The manufacturer of electric vehicles informed employees earlier this week. The workers, who are paid every hour, have been informed that they could take time paid or come for cleaning and training but would not work on the production chain.
The workers said their schedules have been increasingly incoherent since February. Some said they had been sent home on several occasions.
In February, the Austin factory began to suppress overtime, workers said. Two said that management said that if they had timed overtime, they could possibly cope with disciplinary measures.
A Tesla spokesperson did not respond to a request for comments.
In April, BI reported that Tesla had reduced production objectives for Cybertruck and moved some of its workers out of the line. The automaker also closed cybertruck production for three days in December.
Earlier this month, Trigo, a company that contracts workers from the Tesla factory, dismissed 50 employees who worked at the installation of Austin, according to a notice of notification of adjustment and recycling of workers issued by the Texas WorkForce Commission.
A Trigo spokesperson did not respond to a request for comments.
In April, Elon Musk’s automaker declared a 13% drop in deliveries from one year to the next. During the first quarter, Tesla said it had produced nearly 26,000 more electric vehicles than it delivered, even after a drop in production of almost 100,000 vehicles compared to the previous quarter.
Tesla’s shares are down approximately 26% over a year. Musk said at an event with President Donald Trump in March that Tesla would double her vehicle production rates in the United States over the next two years.
The company published an updated version of the Y model, its most popular vehicle in January, but there were panels that it did not sell as well as previous refreshments. He started offering the car discounts in April, and he published a cheaper version of the EV on Tuesday.
As of March 20, the company had delivered less than 50,000 cybertrucks, according to a voluntary recall notice.
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