AvtoVAZ offers employees of the Izhevsk Automobile Plant up to seven salaries – if only they quit as soon as possible
According to auto expert Morzharetto, the company wants to assemble an electric car – this does not require a lot of staff
Well, at least our auto industry has learned something from foreign manufacturers! But, unfortunately, it’s not about quality or technology: AvtoVAZ adopted from its Western colleagues the habit of paying people well to get rid of them. For example, in June, Volkswagen offered employees of an enterprise in Nizhny Novgorod to voluntarily resign and receive six salaries for this. And now the employees of one of the oldest automobile plants in the country, Izhevsk, which is part of AvtoVAZ, have received a “best offer”.
The management of the parent company is ready to give good compensation for voluntary dismissal, plus assistance in finding employment, as well as in retraining for other professions. The amount of compensation is 5 average salaries or 12 minimum wages*, whichever is greater. And those who have reached retirement age are ready to pay even seven average salaries if they agree to take a well-deserved rest ahead of schedule.
The problem is that the production of the Lada Vesta car, which was produced at this plant, has stopped for 5 months already – components are not coming from abroad. The workers even wrote a letter to President Putin with a request to prevent the closure of the car factory.
“Now we are not talking about the closure of the enterprise, but about its re-profiling,” Igor Morzharetto, an auto expert, partner of the Avtostat company, explained to kp.ru. – Most likely, the Lada Vesta car will no longer be produced there. And they will collect an electric car. What question. I think we can talk about a new version of an existing model – perhaps this is a Lada Largus commercial van, it is in great demand. The production of electric vehicles requires fewer workers, so the employees of the car plant, primarily retirees and pre-retirees, were asked to quit.
In the future, according to the expert, it is planned to organize the production of components necessary for the domestic auto industry, including those that are now produced abroad, at the plant. And they also want to create an industrial park Lada-Izhevsk on the territory of the plant, in which a variety of production facilities will be opened – not only related to the automotive industry, the AvtoVAZ company said in a statement. The task is to create new jobs, so that those who have quit may well return to the old walls.
