FREMONT — Tesla, in a fresh jolt to the Bay Area employment market, has decided to slash several hundred more jobs in the region, affecting workers in the East Bay and South Bay.
Separately, another electric vehicle maker, Fisker Group, has revealed plans to chop 45 jobs in San Francisco. These permanent layoffs arise from a decision by the company to permanently close a site in that city.
American Eagle Outfitters, in another blow for San Francisco’s reeling retail scene, will jettison 52 jobs as part of a permanent closure of its store at the failed San Francisco Centre shopping mall.
Tesla will chop 601 jobs in the Bay area, including 378 jobs in Fremont and another 223 jobs in Palo Alto, according to documents on file with the state Employment Development Department.
These new layoffs by Tesla arrive on the heels of the electric vehicle maker’s disclosure that it had decided to ax 2,753 jobs in the Bay Area, affecting workers in Fremont and Palo Alto.
Within the last few weeks, Tesla has revealed plans to eliminate 3,354 jobs in the Bay Area.
The previously announced layoffs are scheduled for June 14, the state EDD documents show. The latest job cuts revealed by Tesla are slated to occur on June 20, according to the new WARN notice.
Tesla stated that the latest layoff notices were a followup to the company’s prior WARN letters that it had sent to the EDD.
“This supplemental notice is to provide that Tesla Inc. will be permanently laying off additional employees” at multiple Bay Area locations, Rissa Royal, Tesla manager of people operations, stated in a letter the company sent to the EDD dated May 13.
In addition, Tesla has drastically scaled back its hiring plans.
In recent weeks, Tesla had about 3,400 job openings posted on its site. As of May 14, the tech company had three job openings worldwide, including one in Fremont, one in Texas and one in Nevada, according to a review of the Tesla careers page.