Former employee ordered to pay Tesla $ 400,000

A Tesla dealership in Colorado, June 7, 2020. -

American justice has ordered a former Tesla employee to pay $ 400,000 to the American manufacturer.

The reason ?

This industrial technician had made statements to the press regarding information deemed confidential on production problems at a factory, reports

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This man had been hired in a Tesla factory in Nevada, in October 2017. Initially an industrial technician, he had finally changed position because he was not considered to be efficient enough and he was having relationship problems with some members of the company. the team.

A whistleblower, according to him

It was from this moment that he decided to make revelations in the press about the production problems of the plant.

In front of the magistrates, he admitted to having raised problems of reliability and the quantities of waste from the factories with journalists but he denied having hacked computers in order to recover confidential information.

While he defined himself as a whistleblower, American justice ruled otherwise.

She ordered him to pay $ 400,000 in compensation to his former employer.

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