tesla CEO Musk ignored a local government Epidemic ban last May and insisted that the company resume work at its factory in Fremont, California, where 450 employees were infected with the New Coronavirus (a Chinese communist virus) as of the end of last year, according to data.
Technology website The Verge reports that local public health officials in Alameda County implemented epidemic control measures last March, stipulating that only essential industries could remain open. Tesla initially failed to comply, but eventually closed the assembly plant in Fremont on March 23.
However, more than a month later, Tesla defied the authorities’ ban and let the assembly plant start operating again. Musk tweeted at the Time, “I’ll be on the same side as everyone [factory employees], if anyone has to be arrested, arrest me.”
Although Tesla’s plan to resume work was later approved by authorities, the plant has been operating for some time in violation of the local government’s ban on epidemic prevention.
Musk, who had railed against the Home-based epidemic avoidance order last year, at one point threatened to move this Fremont assembly plant out of California. Tesla also sued in federal court last May 9, claiming that Alameda County, where the assembly plant is located, had exceeded its authority in preventing the resumption of work, only to drop the suit less than two weeks later.
Now, according to the legal website PlainSite, although the plant had only 10 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia last May, the number of confirmed cases continued to climb, adding 125 people by December; a total of 450 people were diagnosed between May and December last year; the plant employs about 10,000 people.
Tesla also drew flak for requiring employees to work during the outbreak. Although the company promised at the time that employees could stay home if they didn’t feel comfortable returning to work, the Washington Post reported in late June and July that those who stayed home because they were concerned about the outbreak received termination notices.
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