Tesla factory boss defends knocking on workers’ doors when they’re off sick at home

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Tesla factory boss defends knocking on workers’ doors when they’re off ***** at home

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the opening of the factory near Berlin in 2022.PATRICK PLEUL/Getty Images

A Tesla factory boss defended the decision to knock on workers’ doors when they’re out *****.

André Thierig denied the home visits were unusual and suggested workers were exploiting the system.

High rates of absence at the factory have attracted the interest of Elon Musk.

The boss of

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******* factory has defended the decision to send managers to knock on workers’ doors while they’re out *****.

André Thierig, the senior director of the country’s Gigafactory, suggested that workers at the plant near Berlin had been exploiting ******* *****-leave laws. His defense came after local media reported that managers had been

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Some of those visits were met with doors slammed in bosses’ faces and workers threatening to call the police, the ******* newspaper

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, citing a recording of an internal meeting.

Thierig said turning up at employees’ homes was not unusual, the ******* press agency DPA said, according to

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He told DPA that Tesla executives wanted to appeal to the “work ethic” of employees. Tesla factory execs previously said the rate of ***** leave was higher on Fridays.

“That is not an indicator of bad working conditions because the working conditions are the same on all working days and across all shifts,” Thierig said. “It suggests that the ******* social system is being exploited to some extent.”

The plant’s human-resources manager said the rate of employees calling in ***** at Tesla’s ******* factory, which employs about 12,000 workers and is the carmaker’s only manufacturing plant in Europe,

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, Handelsblatt reported — three times the average for the rest of the ******* auto industry in 2023.

The high rates of ***** leave have drawn the attention of Elon Musk. In a post on X, the Tesla CEO said he would look into the report.

Musk is known for encouraging a “*********” approach to work at Tesla, with reports saying employees had in the past

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Tesla did not respond to a request for comment sent outside normal working hours.

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