Tesla Is Allegedly Withholding Wages Of German Employees On Sick Leave
Tesla Is Allegedly Withholding Wages Of German Employees On Sick Leave
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This stuff is great to try in Germany 😁
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I read a German article a few days ago. They definitely threatened to withhold wages. They also pressured workers into disclosing their health info. Via email.
The Unions are (orders of magnitude) more active against Tesla than against comparable employers.
Oh and of course Tesla does not like people being in unions in the first place.
It's the same playbook, but in a different country that actually has worker protection.
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It is not only the unions, it is the law in Germany. Americans have a hard time understanding the immense power of the law protecting employees here. Withholding sick payment is about as illegal as demanding health info. Both will be easy wins in court. Tesla will find themselves in a place of legal hurt.
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Yeah, I would always pick the law over the union. I once had an employer try to fuck me over the pettiest thing. they had incorrectly, probably deliberately, terminated my contract so that I was ineligible for unemployment benefits. They don't pay that benefit and it takes them literally 5 minutes to fix it, so it pretty much would cost them nothing to make that change. But it meant the world for me because that would've been the only way for me to put food on the table. I argued with them for days and the entire time they're gaslighting me with "You don't know what you're talking about, we did everything right. Nothing is wrong." Eventually I got fed up. I told them "I don't need to deal with this shit. Give me the official reason why you can't change the reason for me termination. I'll forward it to the labour office and you can deal with them." literally the next thing they said was "fine, we'll fix it." and 5 minutes later it was done.
I imagine a union would've also helped me in that scenario, but I enjoyed the safety of knowing I could stick the law in their face and tell them to eat shit. My opinion is that worker unions are great but labor laws are even better.
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It is not only the unions, it is the law in Germany.
I should have made that clearer!
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Tesla may not be around long enough to pay anyone anything.
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I hope they rip Elon a big fat fancy new hole in his net wealth. Alas, someone, cue me the tiniest of violins 🎻
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Pretty sure that's the tiniest.
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Germany needs to ban Tesla from their country as a whole. Confiscate the assets and continue to pay the workers until they're relocated or another company buys the factories.
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This is highly illegal and should be quite easy to win in court.
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Looking at the financial figures of Tesla, withholding wages could be a way of maintaining liquidity. In some cases, this is the harbinger of insolvency. Let's see what happens next.
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What happens next is that Tesla will be fucked by a German court.
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Work force councils gonna bring the hammer?
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I’m starting to think the Tesla CEO isn’t a good person.
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You don’t say…
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I know the scriptures say "judge not lest yea be judged", but I'm just gonna come out and say it. This guy is a real jerk!
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I can excuse being a Nazi, but workers rights is where I draw the line.
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Germany should immediately seize all of Tesla's accounts there and pay the workers on sick leave out of those funds.
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If we somehow do that I will be more upset, considering how long it takes to seize the property of Russian oligarchs here.
No, German way is to take this to court.
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Fair enough.
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You gon learn
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Mmmm I dunno, this might damage their otherwise spotless reputation.
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High Levels Of Worker Callout at the end of March? Must be the anti-capitalist woke mind virus /s
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83 percent of respondents often felt overworked and that 59 percent regularly experienced physical discomfort due to their work
We'd probably get the same results at my job. Lot's of physical labor, and yes, it can be uncomfortable.
high worker absenteeism, which reached a whopping 17 percent last summer
JESUS! Not like that!
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I'm really hoping the newer exo skeletons can help with some of that physical labor pain and discomfort. Things like if you lift your arm to screw something above you, once you reach up it automatically holds your weight for you while you work, and seamlessly releases when you bring your arm down.
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Well Germany needs to do something? Are they scared of musk?
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Wrong. Also, wrong.
In summation, you're wrong because your sources of information are wrong.
To get correct, it does take effort, and it's worth it.
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Source?
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