The boss of a Tesla factory has defended the decision to send managers to the homes of workers on long-term sick leave.
In recent weeks, a director of Tesla’s electric car plant in Germany sent managers to check up on about two dozen employees who have continued to be paid while being on sick leave over the past nine months.
André Thierig, the plant’s manufacturing director, said the home visits were common practice in the industry and that the company simply wanted to “appeal to the employees’ work ethic”.
The move by Elon Musk’s US-headquartered carmaker has sparked outrage at the trade union IG Metall, which represents a proportion of the 12,000 workers at the Berlin-Brandenburg gigafactory.
The company had identified about 200 members of staff who were still being paid but had not turned up for work at all this year. “They submit a new sicknote from the doctor at least every six weeks,” he said.
…then you don’t have to pay them. Company is on the hook for the first six weeks, then the health insurance, then disability, and you can generally terminate people after those six weeks.
In short: You should fire management for gross incompetence. Can’t blame a worker for getting paid more because of company stupidity.
Or, different angle: They really must be desperate for workers if they’re trying to retain those people. Paying well and having good working conditions would be a way to achieve that, yet another reason to fire management, up to and including Musk, for gross incompetence.
This system poses a significantly high potential to be abused.
If you’re someone that identifies as a woman who’s still working for Elon for some reason, you REALLY might want to consider looking for alternative jobs as a emergency escape option.
André Thierig, the plant’s manufacturing director, said the home visits were common practice in the industry and that the company simply wanted to “appeal to the employees’ work ethic”.
Translation: Tesla wants to pressure people to return to work. What else would one expect from a company run by that assclown.
It mentions these are people who have been on sick leave for over 9 months. I don’t know how sick leave works in Germany, but isn’t there a point where the leave has effectively turned permanent and the slack should be picked up by social services rather than a private business?
6 weeks are the employer’s responsibility, after that the Krankenkasse takes over for 70% of wages for 72 weeks across 3 years.
Maybe Tesla has some sort of perk of extended/unlimited sick leave?
Thanks for the answer. Sounds like they’re still well within the 72 weeks if I understand that correctly?
As for everyone down voting me, I’m not sure what the issue is. I didn’t say people shouldn’t get sick leave, but that society should be responsible rather than an individual corporation (that also doesn’t mean corporations shouldn’t pay into social services).
A reason for that is that if enough people are on payroll and not working it could end a business. The end result would be business attempting to avoid hiring anyone who could end up on long term sick leave.
They are within the 3 years, at 9 months, so they would be getting 24 weeks of pay per year at 70% of wages.
The Krankenkasse is a public health insurance fund that is funded by employee and employer matched contributions.
Yeah, 9-months is getting out there.
As of October 2023, according to Brandenburg’s Minister of Health Ursula Nonnemacher, Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg employs 11,500 people. The labor union IG Metall stated more than 1,000 employees have jointly demanded improved working conditions in a first-time campaign at the Grünheide factory and numerous Tesla employees have complained about poor working conditions. The workers criticized the workload as “extreme” due to short cycle times, a lack of personnel and excessive production targets. Employees also pointed to serious deficiencies in health protection, which led to sickness rates of up to around 30 percent and a high number of work accidents. When the union put up stickers in 2023 that read, “Our health is more important than the next billion to Elon,” Tesla warned of disciplinary action that included termination without notice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_Berlin-Brandenburg
Borderline harassment
Doesn’t seem borderline to me
That’s a cover my arse word.
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