New Delhi, March 16 -- Elon Musk's Tesla is currently under attack for various reasons and to add it, the EV maker is now facing major criticism for not paying sick employees at its factory in Germany.

German news website Handelsblatt recently reported, an unusually high number of workers at Elon Musk's plant have called in sick. Responding to it, company has been sending them letters with the subject line: "Doubts about the submitted certificates of incapacity to work."

The letters threaten to stop payment of wages immediately and repayment of salaries already paid. Company also asked the employees to disclose their diagnosis for "every certified incapacity for work" and to release the doctors treating them from their duty of confident...