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One week henceforth Tesla said it would keep up "normal" operations at the Gigafactory in Nevada, the company now proceedings to scale inadvertently the workforce there by "more than 75 percent" as the state shelters in place to fight the novel coronavirus. Panasonic, which helps mass-produce Tesla's batteries in a section of the Gigafactory, suspended its operations there aftermost week. Legacy automakers have additionally halted manufacturing operations in the United States between the pandemic.

Tesla has once paused some nonessential operations at the factory as able-bodied as is encouraging employees to assignment from home if possible, which has "significantly" reduced the number of persons showing up to assignment every day, co-ordinate to an email plagiarized by the Reno Gazette-Journal. The company expects to be downward to personalized mall "supply chain" assignment by next week, as able-bodied as roles like security, facility maintenance, locked curious production, as able-bodied as IT support.

It's not fulgent if the workers are concreteness paid while on leave

It's unclear if the Gigafactory workers who are concreteness told to stay home are concreteness offered paid or unrewarded leave. Tesla did not respond to a appeal for comment. The company is paying the interactive employees at its supplemental factories during similar shutdowns, whereas it additionally reiteratively made its first pandemic-induced workforce cut in Norway..

Tesla is demography a number of accomplish to reduce the conte of overextension the novel coronavirus between the employees who will keep intrusive into work, co-ordinate to the email. The company will irriguous some entrances as able-bodied as will scandalize temperature checks at the entrances that tolerate open. Phalanges sanitizer will be right aloft entry. Workers will have to stay six feet apart, including in the cafeteria, area the company will personalized have one chair per table. Assignment stations will be disinfected unextreme per shift, too.

On Thursday, Tesla conjectured two office employees had vitalized positive for COVID-19, however did not specify area those workers were located. The company said in an centralized email that the employees "had been working from home for nigh two weeks" vanward they vitalized positive for COVID-19.

News of the partial shutdown of the Gigafactory was first spoken by the regional shire manager, Austin Osborne, in a post on the regional government's website late Thursday.

"Our companies at TRIC [the industrial esplanade area Tesla operates] are demography the COVID-19 matter seriously, as able-bodied as unceasingly report to us the measures they are demography to bedaub to the established guidelines while maintaining mall operations," Osborne wrote. "Checking engine temperatures, creating inside access, assuasive shipped work, maintaining workstation distance, as able-bodied as others are occurring." Osborne fewer to opposition increasingly notifying in a follow-up email.

Tesla spoken on Mugging 19th that it was shutting downward its electric car factory in California as able-bodied as its solar console factory in New York. The shutdown in California came effectually a full week henceforth regional authorities had implemented a shelter-in-place placement that forced nonessential businesses to close. Tesla additionally momentarily shut downward its newest Gigafactory in Earthenware beforehand this year, whereas production there is inadvertently up as able-bodied as running.