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Tesla tells some laid-off employees their separation agreements are canceled and new ones are on the way

Elon Musk speaking at an event.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk weighed in on the severance offered to laid-off staff earlier in the week.Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
  • Tesla sent notices to some laid-off workers saying their separation agreements had been canceled.

  • Elon Musk previously stated some severance packages were "incorrectly low."

  • The cancellations came after some workers received severance offers for two months of pay.

Some laid-off Tesla workers received a notification that their separation agreements had been canceled on Thursday and to expect new ones, two laid-off workers told Business Insider.

The workers received a notification about a document titled "Your separation agreement," with "status: canceled," according to one of the emails obtained by BI. The notification said, "Canceled by sender: Cancelling to send updated agreement," per a screenshot of the message. The email appears to be an automatic email from the Adobe Acrobat Sign e-signature tool.

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The notification came after Elon Musk sent a companywide email to current Tesla employees on Wednesday, saying that "some severance packages are incorrectly low."

"My apologies for this mistake. It is being corrected immediately," Musk said in the email that was viewed by BI.