Ugh; talk about a BS story meant to discredit Tesla.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjEnYOi1qrjAhUD5aYKHc7YBKMQqQIIMygAMAI&url=https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-workers-fired-pregnant-leave-2019-7&usg=AOvVaw2VcCI0Y5xDYnKmLpjq7Rcx
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Three women claim to be wrongfully terminated. One notified Tesla of her pregnancy in July last year, and was terminated in December when she was due to take maternity leave in February from GF1. She worked 11 months total at the company. She was promoted to a 'supervisor' position 'last year' but was terminated due to undisclosed behavior issues, according to Tesla.
One was a Tesla store operator in Las Vegas, and was terminated because she had been taking the leave days from her coworkers (supposedly because of child care reasons), and was 22 weeks pregnant at the time. She apparently had 4 children before her newest, and it's not stated how long she worked at Tesla prior to her termination. She was terminated because it's illegal to use another member's benefits, even at their own permission, says Tesla.
And the last was in Fremont, was a husband/wife combo (though it's mostly towards the woman). She was fire for cellphone usage during work, after supposedly getting permission from her supervisor, and she claimed it was because she was calling her sick husband. (the husband was fired for an Tesla policy violating tweet he did at a later date). There was an investigation briefly mentioned. She worked there for 19 months prior to termination. Tesla agrees she was terminated due to her cell usage.
All of these are absurd. Not only is the timeline with these sketchy (the first woman was terminated 7 months ago), but they're all very purposefully sympathetic characters without details about their offense.
The first; behavior issues can happen, and do so, even if the woman is pregnant. It doesn't matter whether the woman was promoted before; sometimes, that's what makes them the assholes/unreliable/whatever else. And she was only at the company less than a year, how did she get promoted to supervisor 'last year'? Was it within a week of her hiring or something? Is it last year to now, so around July?
The second; employees each get certain benefits they're allotted. Unless there is a program in place to do so, which the company usually briefs members on when they join (as part of their "welcome to the company" package), or is discussed when you ask your supervisor ('Hey, I need time off to do XYZ, is there a way for Billy to give me his excess days off?'), and if that hasn't occurred, it doesn't mean use your position to sensitive data to gain the benefit.
(Side note: Jesus,
5 kids? By yourself? Probably Tesla, a very high pace, demanding company, isn't the best for your situation as you seem to need much more flexible hours)
And lastly; I know a lot of companies have no cell phone use policy. I also know very, very rarely would they ever fire someone, who worked at the company longer than a few months and thus are fully trained and have a known history with the company, would terminate someone for a
single cell phone use during working hours. Further, would spend the time, money, and energy on an investigation into said cell phone use, before the termination occurred. There is undoubtedly much more to this story that she isn't saying, especially if her husband shortly after was fired over a tweet. Her firing date is unknown, so my bet was the husband was disparaging against Tesla on twitter.
