{"id":348048,"date":"2026-03-07T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-customs-delays-force-solar-giant-qcells-to-furlough-1000-workers-update\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:03:27","slug":"us-customs-delays-force-solar-giant-qcells-to-furlough-1000-workers-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-customs-delays-force-solar-giant-qcells-to-furlough-1000-workers-update\/","title":{"rendered":"US Customs delays force solar giant Qcells to furlough 1,000 workers [update]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/us-customs-delays-force-solar-giant-qcells-to-furlough-1000-workers-update.jpg\" \/>In early November 2025, solar panel giant Qcells announced that it was temporarily furloughing 1,000 US workers \u2013 25% of its workforce \u2013 and reducing pay and shifts at its Georgia factories due to supply chain delays caused by US Customs. Today \u2013 four months later \u2013 Qcells announced that\u00a0its\u00a0solar panel output is finally back to\u00a0normal\u00a0production. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/03\/06\/us-customs-delays-force-solar-giant-qcells-to-furlough-1000-workers\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-customs-delays-force-solar-giant-qcells-to-furlough-1000-workers-update\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":348049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}