Tesla will pay three months’ salary to their Ukrainian employees who return home to fight against the Russian invasion.
QUICK FACTS:
- Elon Musk’s Tesla will continue paying Ukrainian workers who return to their home country to fight the Russian invasion, according to The Blaze.
- The company announced the new policy in an internal email to employees in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa CNBC reported.
- There was no word if the same policy applies to North America or other locations around the world.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called up military reservists late last month causing eligible Ukrainian men to report for active duty.
WHAT ELSE TESLA SAID:
- “For any Tesla employees who is a Ukrainian national and has been asked to return to Ukraine for active duty as a reservist, we will maintain their employment and salary for 3 months, with a view to assessing after this period as needed,” read the email, sent by Axel Tangen, Tesla’s director of Northern Europe.
- Ukraine reached out to Musk directly to ask for assistance with his SpaceX internet service, which he responded to immediately.
- “Tesla teamed up with SpaceX to provide coverage expansion for its Starlink services to help provide an alternative internet infrastructure,” Tangen wrote, noting that volunteers worked on the project and “in true Tesla fashion, the solution has been put together in less than 3 days.”
BACKGROUND:
- Although Tesla does not officially operate in Ukraine, they did email Tesla owners saying that EV drivers could charge for free in Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, according to The Foreign Desk.
- Companies such as General Motors and Ford have moved to suspend their business in Russia following the invasion into Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
