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Some precocious laid-off Tesla labor reportedly knowledgeable a mix-up pinch their severance packages.
CEO Elon Musk emailed workers astir nan rumor connected Wednesday, saying it had "come to my attraction that immoderate severance packages are incorrectly low," CNBC reported.
Earlier successful nan week, Tesla had disclosed successful a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it planned to laic disconnected 10% of its workers.
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"My apologies for this mistake," Musk went connected to opportunity successful nan email astir nan severance package issue, according to CNBC. "It is being corrected immediately."
Elon Musk speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 astatine Jazz astatine Lincoln Center connected Nov. 29, 2023, successful New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times / Getty Images)
Tesla did not respond to FOX Business' petition for comment.
With much than 140,400 labor astatine nan extremity of 2023, Tesla's 10% trim could consequence successful 14,000 group losing their jobs.
When announcing nan occupation cuts, Tesla said the institution has seen a "duplication of roles and occupation functions successful definite areas" amid its "rapid growth" successful caller years.
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Tesla disclosed alongside nan layoffs that its elder vice president of powertrain and power engineering, Andrew Baglino, had near aft an 18-year stint astatine nan company.
"We judge it is highly important to look astatine each facet of nan Company for costs reductions and expanding productivity," nan EV shaper said. "This action will hole Tesla for our adjacent shape of growth, arsenic we are processing immoderate of nan astir revolutionary technologies successful auto, power and artificial intelligence."
Tesla reported earlier this period that its quarterly deliveries declined for nan first clip successful astir 4 years and fell short of Wall Street analysts' estimates. The automaker delivered astir 387,000 vehicles successful nan first 4th – good beneath expectations of astir 443,000 and an 8.5% alteration compared pinch nan first 4th of past year.
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In precocious January, arsenic nan institution released its fourth-quarter results, Tesla told analysts and investors that it was "between 2 awesome maturation waves: nan first 1 began pinch nan world description of nan Model3/Y level and nan adjacent 1 we judge will beryllium initiated by nan world description of nan next-generation conveyance platform."
New Tesla electrical vehicles capable nan car batch astatine nan Tesla unit location connected Route 347 successful Smithtown, New York, connected July 5, 2023. (Photo by John Paraskevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images / Getty Images)
It said its conveyance maturation complaint "may beryllium notably lower" than 2023’s "as our teams activity connected nan motorboat of nan next-generation conveyance astatine Gigafactory Texas."
FOX Business' Stephen Sorace and Eric Revell contributed to this report.
