Elon Musk tweets Tesla will have to postpone its yearly shareholder meeting

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Friday that the company will have to postpone its once-a-year shareholder assembly which was scheduled for July 7 because of to the coronavirus outbreak.

“We will have to postpone yearly shareholder assembly, as still no significant gatherings allowed by July 7th. Not certain of new date, but am guessing perhaps a thirty day period or so afterwards,” Musk mentioned in his tweet.

Tesla is struggling with stress from proxy advisors Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Solutions (ISS) who are equally urging shareholders to vote to oppose the reelection of Robyn Denholm as board chair at the electric car maker.

The proxy advisors have expressed problems around Tesla’s large payment for administrators, and a steep rise in the amount of money of shares pledged by Tesla administrators and executives, together with Elon Musk, because Denholm was appointed chair in November 2018.

Denholm changed Elon Musk as chairman of the board just after he was pressured to give up the role as portion of a settlement agreement with the SEC in excess of his now notorious tweets declaring he had secured funding to acquire Tesla private at $420 for each share.

In the meantime, Nia Impression Capital has asked Tesla shareholders to vote against the board’s suggestion and require the organization to report specifics about the effects of required arbitration on its staff. In accordance to investigate by Nia Effect Cash, necessary arbitration can engender and provide to conceal harassment in the office. On June 19, Nia Effect Cash gained a preliminary vote of 70% for a connected proposal at Fortinet, whose shareholders voted to call for the enterprise to launch quantitative diversity knowledge.