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Re:Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week by wokeland on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:51PM (#15470620)
The word “layoff” appears nowhere in this report. The words used are “fired” “dismissals” and “firing”. This is a completely different activity than laying off.
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Re:Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week by yellowapple on Saturday October 14, 2017 @02:38AM (#15471071)
To elaborate further, "firing" makes sense if Tesla is pinning its low Model 3 production numbers on inefficient and/or incompetent staff.
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Re:Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week by a3n on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:39AM (#15477585)
So they say. I imagine straight termination for "performance" reasons (even people who self-report as never having previous bad reviews) differs from layoffs in any company-declared or regulatory obligations. Unemployment insurance might be one.
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