The price cuts caused used electric vehicle values to drop and clipped Tesla's profit margins. This week, Tesla said it was letting about 10% of its workers go, about 14,000 people. In the filing, Tesla's board wrote that the decision to seek shareholder approval of Musk's 2018 pay package was made by the board after it received a report from a special committee of one board member, Kathleen Wilson-Thompson. The board wrote that if there is any significant vote against future executive pay packages, "we will consider our stockholders' concerns, and the compensation committee will evaluate whether any actions are necessary to address those concerns." Shares of Tesla Inc., which slid another 8% this week, fell about 1% Wednesday. _ Chapman reported from New York. This story has been corrected to explain that shareholder voting on future executive compensation is advisory only.