A bit more unfortunate news about Tesla. More on the employment practices side of things. Was kind of expecting better from Elon Musk.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/...ifornia-plant/
"But a lawsuit from an injured construction worker on the Fremont plant has exposed Tesla as hiring a foreign contractor in 2015 to ship 140 workers from impoverished Croatia and Slovenia to build a new paint shop at Tesla’s Fremont plant.
The Bay Area News Group, after dozens of employee interviews and extensive review of the contractor’s payroll, visa and court documents, concluded that the Eastern European contract employees “work long hours for low wages, in apparent violation of immigration and labor laws.”
The contractor for Gregor Lesnik of Slovenia allegedly claimed on his application for a United States B1/B2 for “Nonimmigrant Visas for Tourism and Business” that he would be a management supervisor for a South Carolina auto manufacturing plant.
Although the federal law governing B1/B2 Visas specifically states, “These provisions do not apply to an alien seeking to perform building or construction work, whether on-site or in-plant,” Lesnik was shipped directly to Fremont, California where he allegedly joined 140 Eastern Europeans being paid about $5-per-hour, in 10-hour days, six and sometimes seven days a week as laborers to build Tesla’s paint shop."