A number of staff at Tesla’s Shanghai plant, its greatest manufacturing hub globally by output, mentioned they’d been awarded a big improve of their newest quarterly efficiency bonuses.

The employees mentioned they welcomed the award after the EV maker had lower bonuses for a lot of workers within the earlier quarter.

Discontent on the plant emerged in April after a number of staff took to social media to complain about bonus cuts and appealed on to founder Elon Musk, who mentioned he would look into it.

Three staff advised Reuters that they’d obtained bonuses of 1.5 occasions of month-to-month base wage for the second quarter. This was greater than the quarterly bonuses – 1.2 occasions the month-to-month wage – that almost all of staff used to obtain for common efficiency, the employees mentioned.

The employees mentioned a number of of their colleagues had obtained comparable sized bonus will increase however Reuters was unable to determine what number of had been awarded a bonus hike. The plant, which makes Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, employs round 20,000 staff.

One of many staff mentioned that his efficiency bonus had doubled this month on the primary quarter, when it was lower to 0.785 occasions the month wage.

The employees mentioned they weren’t given a purpose for why their bonus had elevated and if it was associated to the earlier complaints. However the transfer comes after Tesla delivered 247,000 models of China-made EVs within the second quarter, the very best degree since its Shanghai plant opened.

Tesla didn’t instantly reply for a request for remark.

In Could, Musk paid a late night time go to to the plant as a part of his first journey to China in three years. He thanked the employees for “the wonderful work”, overcoming difficulties and challenges in a speech on the plant.