AvtoVAZ – minus 8 thousand employees

17 July 2017

AvtoVAZ plans global staff reduction in 2017-2018

AvtoVAZ plans global staff reduction in 2017-2018

As transfers TASS, the representative of Russian President in Volga Federal district Mikhail Babich reported on the plans of AVTOVAZ in 2017 – 2018 to cut 8000 employees. "According to "AVTOVAZ", 6 thousand people this year and another 2.2 million people in 2018 [to be cut]," said he.

The largest car manufacturer of cars in Russia, apparently decided to optimize its work in a crisis. However, Mikhail Babich, said that in respect of redundant frames, the shareholders must keep all the package of social guarantees.

"People should get all the required payments, the people should get a new profession, a new well paid jobs. All activities of the administration of the enterprise must perform so as not to create social tension," - said the envoy

At all times the automotive industry is one of the first felt on itself consequences of crisis and, usually, governments provided state aid to the domestic automobile industry in the form of bailouts.

How will do at AVTOVAZ, is still unknown. They may be able to "attach" a brigade of 8 thousand employees in the US working on the project Motorcade, the cars, which will carry including the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

By the way, the human resources situation at AVTOVAZ, recently commented the Minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov, calling the cuts "cosmetic tweaks", adding that nothing catastrophic happened.