The data comes from Today’s newswhich has taken note of the agreements that Swedish Tesla employees are allowed to sign upon employment.
The agreements are packed with legal text in both Swedish and English. They are also very comprehensive, with a length of between 40 and 70 A4 pages.
The language used in the agreements is said to be complicated and difficult to understand.
Not reasonable according to IF Metall
According to Drako Davidovic, federal lawyer at IF Metall, the Tesla agreements stand out with their length and complexity, as Swedish employment contracts are normally 4 to 5 A4 pages long.
– As a lawyer, I find it difficult to understand and have to read several times. It is not reasonable, ordinary people should not have to do a legal analysis of their employment contract, says Davidovic to DN.
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Non-disclosure for life
It is not only the language and scope of Tesla’s employment agreements that stand out, but also the confidentiality requirements they contain.
New employees who sign the contract commit themselves to complete confidentiality about the company – not only during the employment period, but for the entire future.
According to experts with whom DN has spoken, this is almost unique in the Swedish labor market.
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Non-competition clause
The agreement also states that an employee may not take a job with a competitor within six months, and that anyone who does this is liable for damages.
By signing, the employees also waive the right to their intellectual property rights – not only at work but also outside.
– There doesn’t need to be connections to Tesla either, they still own the rights. In practice, it can mean a collection of poems that someone wrote in their spare time, says Lena Maier Söderberg, chief legal officer at LO-TCO Legal Protection, to DN.
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A protracted battle
There have been many rumors surrounding IF Metall’s strike, and much has been written about how the strike has limited support among those who actually work at Tesla.
However, one can speculate about how the extensive and strict agreements affect the Tesla employees’ inclination to take a stand against their employer.
However, the agreements have not prevented IF Metall from messing with it for Tesla.
Sympathetic strikes have led, among other things, to the car manufacturer’s cars not being unloaded at the ports, to them not having their license plates delivered by Postnord, and to the cancellation of garbage collection from their facilities.
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