Ukrainian Tesla employees who are asked to return to defend their country will receive pay for at least three months, according to an e-mail the company sent Monday to employees in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. It wasn’t clear from the email whether this benefit would be extended to employees in North America and elsewhere.
After three months, Tesla plans to reassess Russia’s war in Ukraine and their employees’ situations to decide if more needs to be done.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called up reservists to fight back in February, preceding the anticipated invasion.
Ukrainian Tesla employees who are asked to return to defend their country will receive pay for at least three months, according to an e-mail the […]
In the Monday email — sent on the 12th day after the invasion — Tesla employees were also praised for helping SpaceX, the aerospace venture also led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to bring its Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine. Among other things, Tesla’s Energy team assembled and provided lithium ion battery energy storage systems, known as Tesla Powerwalls, to run Starlink equipment in Ukraine. Tesla employees used inverters and charging cables that were donated by Tesla’s certified installers in the area to assemble the Starlink-and-Powerwall systems. They also fashioned AC cables from scrap at Tesla’s new factory being built outside of Berlin to help power Starlink equipment.
