Musk’s position on employment has become clearer in recent weeks. Cuts are targeted at salaried workers, and the CEO still expects total head count to grow in coming quarters as his company seeks to boost output of EVs.
Tesla delivered about 936,000 vehicles in 2021. Wall Street expects about 1.4 million units to be shipped to customers in 2022. That number is expected to hit roughly 2.1 million in 2023.
“A year from now, I think our head count will be higher,” said Musk in a Tuesday interview at a Bloomberg conference. “For now the head-count reduction will be 3% to 3.5%.”
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The 3% to 3.5% aren’t happy, and are suing Tesla. The suit, filed by Lichten & Liss-Riordan, says Tesla violated federal law by not providing enough notice to workers, saying 60 days notice of a mass layoff is required and Tesla, essentially, gave no notice.
Musk called the suit trivial in his talk. Tesla didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Musk is probably right as it relates to Tesla shareholders. The suit isn’t likely to become an investor-level event for the EV maker’s stock. Employee relations are always important, but the suit, likely brought by salaried workers, isn’t likely to result in a charge large enough to move the share price. The suit is seeking 60-days compensation and benefits for laid off employees. What’s more, the suit isn’t likely to change the status quo regrading unionization of Tesla’s hourly employees.
Tesla’s hourly workers aren’t unionized, unlike many of their counterparts at
Ford Motor
(F) ຫຼື
Motors ທົ່ວໄປ
(GM). Unionization drives are closely followed by investors, although unions aren’t necessarily a negative or a positive for a stock.
United Parcel Service
(UPS), for instance, has more unionized workers than its rival
FedEx
(FDX). Over the past five years, on a cumulative basis, UPS shares are up about 57%—topping the
S&P 500
's
51% rise—while FedEx stock has only managed to gain 8%.
The bigger issues for Tesla investors will be Musk’s deal to purchase
Twitter
(TWTR), demand for EVs, new EV competition, and cost inflation, as well as production rates at the company’s new and existing manufacturing plants.
Employment issues just won’t crack the top five.
Tuesday trading lines up with that conclusion. Tesla stock is up more than 11% in midday trading, seemingly completely unaffected by the suit. The S&P 500 and
Dow Jones Industrial Average
ເພີ່ມຂຶ້ນປະມານ 2.4% ແລະ 1.7% ຕາມລໍາດັບ.
ຂຽນໃສ່ Al Root ທີ່ [email protected]