Tesla plans to cut another 26 jobs at its Buffalo factory after the company decided earlier this week to disband its Supercharging unit that had most of its production based at the South Park Avenue factory.
The latest job cuts, which are on top of 285 positions that were eliminated at the local plant in cutbacks announced last month, are only a modest part of the 500 jobs that Tesla is eliminating companywide by disbanding its Supercharging operations.
Tesla disclosed the job cuts in a filing with the state Labor Department on Thursday. The company said the job cuts would begin at the end of July.
Combined with the previously announced job cuts, Tesla is cutting 311 positions in Buffalo – slightly more than 15% of its local workforce. The impact of Tesla’s job cutting program – which aims to reduce the company’s headcount by 10% – is more severe at the Buffalo plant than it is across the company.
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But even with the announced job cuts, the company still will employ around 1,714 workers, comfortably more than the 1,460 employees that Tesla needs to maintain at the Buffalo factory to avoid paying a $41.2 million penalty to the state, which spent $958 million in taxpayer money to build and partially equip the local plant.
