Tesla has been accused of using a cheap, foreign labour force, made up of 140 American 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.”
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.”