Tesla Inc told furloughed employees on Friday that they’re going to remain out of their work for a minimum of another week, postponing a thought to resume normal operations on May 4 at its vehicle-assembly plant in San Francisco, according to an internal email.
“For furloughed employees, unless you are contacted by your manager about a start date, you will remain on furlough until further notice, at least for another week,” the company’s in-house counsel Valerie Capers Workman said in the email, which was sent to employees and seen by Reuters.
Tesla halted production at its Fremont, California plant on March 24. The extension comes days after health officials from city County, together with five other Bay Area counties, said they might revise “shelter-in-place” orders that are set to expire on Sunday.
The new orders will keep the restrictions in situ and extend them through May, with limited mitigation for a little number of low-risk activities. Tesla Inc last month furloughed all non-essential workers and executed salary cuts during a shutdown of its U.S. production facilities due to the coronavirus outbreak.
