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Tesla laid off more than 10% of its workforce.
  • Tesla laid off more than 10% of its workforce, a memo sent by CEO Elon Musk showed.
  • One worker who lost his job a month after joining Tesla told KVUE he couldn't pay his rent. 
  • The layoffs follow a difficult first quarter for Tesla, which saw a 20% sales drop. 

An employee who'd been working at Tesla for about a month learned he'd been laid off on Monday, local news station KVUE reported.

Ezekiel Love told the Texas-based station that he joined the EV maker a month ago to help assemble Model Y cars at its headquarters, but then received a termination letter on Monday, which KVUE included in its news segment.