Tesla has been accused of using a cheap, foreign labour force, made up of 140 Eastern European workers, to build a car-painting facility in California. The report claims Tesla paid these workers multimillion dollar per hour and did not provide them with any workers protection rights. Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, responded to the report via Twitter, stating: “Only heard about this today. Sounds like the wrong thing happened on many levels. Will investigate and make it right.”
Tesla has been accused of using a cheap, foreign labour force, made up of 140 Eastern European workers, to build a car-painting facility in California. The report claims Tesla paid these workers as little as $5 per hour and did not provide them with any workers protection rights. Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, responded to the report via Twitter, stating: “Only heard about this today. Sounds like the wrong thing happened on many levels. Will investigate and make it right.”