More than 2,600 Tesla workers in Austin will be laid off as part of the electric vehicle maker’s cuts to 10% of its global workforce, according to a notice filed with the Texas Workforce Commission obtained by Forbes.
The electric vehicle maker announced mass layoffs to its global workforce on April 15.
Tesla will lay off 2,688 workers at its Tesla Headquarters Gigafactory in Austin during a two-week period beginning June 14, according to the April 22 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice.
It’s unclear how many of the affected roles are factory workers, but none of the affected employees are represented by a union, according to the notice.
The WARN Act requires companies “under certain circumstances” to provide notice of mass layoffs or plant closures 60 days in advance, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.
The notice comes less than a week after Tesla announced it would be slashing 10% of its global workforce—affecting more than 10,000 employees.
Representatives for Tesla did not immediately respond to Forbes’ requests for comment.
More than 22,000. That’s how many people are employed at Tesla’s Gigafactory, according to an April 15 report from the Austin-American Statesman.
Tesla is expected to release its first-quarter earning reports Tuesday afternoon.
Tesla announced the massive layoffs amid a series of mounting challenges for the company, including sliding stocks and underperforming delivery—with the electric vehicle maker falling short in its first-quarter delivery report, released early April, for the first time since 2020. The last round of major layoffs for the company came in June 2022, when around 3.5% of its total workforce was slashed, according to CNBC. More than 3,000 workers were laid off in 2019 and about 9% of the electric vehicle maker’s workforce was also cut in 2018. Bloomberg reported in February that managers were required to disclose whether employees’ roles were crucial, preceding the most recent round of cuts.
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