In an email to employees Tesla says it will cut salaries and furlough non-essential employees

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• Tesla will be temporarily reducing employees' salaries and will furlough non-essential workers.
• The company made the announcement in an email sent out to employees by the company's head of North American HR on Tuesday, CNBC reported.
• According to the email, Tesla will begin implementing certain cost-cutting measures starting on April 13 and plans to resume normal production at its US facilities on May 4.
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Tesla announced to employees on Tuesday morning that it will be temporarily reducing salaries and will furlough non-essential workers as the automaker curbs its production of new cars due to COVID-19.

In an email sent out to employees by the company's head of North American HR and in-house counsel Valerie Workman, that was published by CNBC, Tesla told employees that some jobs would be impacted as it continues to keep "only minimum critical operations running."

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