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For enterprises, shutdown means that income is also stopped. in order to reduce the company's losses, there will also be enterprises that want to return to work as soon as possible under special circumstances, and Tesla seems to be a typical case. Recently, some foreign media revealed that Tesla arranged for employees to start work in violation of regulations last year when hundreds of people were infected with COVID-19.

According to documents leaked by foreign website PlainSite, Tesla's company has infected 450 people under the global virus pandemic last year. Since Tesla returned to work in May, the number of infections has increased from about 10 to 125 in December, with more than 450 workers infected with COVID-19.

Prior to this, there were media reports that more than 130 workers at Tesla's US factory had diagnosed COVID-19. These Tesla factory employees in Northern California, who were diagnosed with COVID-19, had already had contact with more than 1500 of the factory's about 10, 000 employees. In spite of this, Tesla chose to stick to work

In 2020, the global market was hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, and many governments issued a "shutdown order" in order to reduce the risk of infection. Among them, the California government announced a home shutdown from March 16 last year, with the exception of social service workers. But Musk strongly opposes the compulsory suspension of production, believing that Tesla should be allowed to continue to produce cars, and emailed employees the next day after the government announced that they would not have to come to work if there was any discomfort, but he would go to work himself. "it's stupid to panic about novel coronavirus," he said on Twitter.

The Tesla factory stopped work on March 24, a week later than other companies, after receiving a public warning from the Alameda County government in California. In response, Musk attacked the government's order, cursed in the earnings call, angrily denounced "epidemic control measures are fascist." Since most of Tesla's cars are produced by factories in California, this has a great impact on Tesla.

For this reason, Tesla also took Alameda County, California, to court, asking the court to rule that the county's shutdown order was invalid. Musk even said, "Tesla California factory will resume work from May 11." He publicly threatened the California government to arrest himself if he wanted to arrest anyone, and announced on Twitter that "the headquarters of Tesla will be moved to Texas, and whether the Fremont factory will remain depends on what happens later" and has the support of US President Donald Donald Trump.

In the end, the California to Alameda county government did not stop Tesla's resumption of work, and the Fremont government directly said that they would not arrest Musk. Because Tesla made a great contribution in the local area.

Although Tesla said that "employees are willing to go to work and will not be forced to go to work", media reported in late June and July that workers worried about infecting COVID-19 did not return to work as required. Received a notice of dismissal, which caused a lot of controversy.

It is understood that the exposed document is that the rights protection website Plainsite recently forced the Alameda county government to release a statistical report on the epidemic situation at the Tesla factory through a court lawsuit. Previously, the Alameda County Health Department refused to disclose the specific number of infections at the Tesla factory on the grounds of privacy.

A long suspension of work will inevitably lead to a sharp decline in Tesla's sales and profits, and thanks to the effective control of the epidemic in China last year, Tesla Shanghai Super Factory was also the first car company in China to resume work, which began to resume work on February 10. it was close to a full resumption of work in a short time.

Under the environment of Tesla's rapid resumption of work in many factories around the world, Tesla achieved a milestone of 500000 production and nearly 500000 sales, helping to boost brand profits and stock prices. According to the data, Tesla's net profit for the whole of 2020 was $721 million, up from a loss of $862 million in 2019, making it the most valuable auto company at the moment.

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