Russia: deficit of electronic components

AvtoVAZ will translate staff for the four-day working week due to the forecast of the Russian automotive market and the continuing deficit of the supply of electronic components, the company’s press service reports.

Four days will be transferred to employees of factories in Izhevsk and Tolyatti. Such a schedule for them will be introduced from June 6 for three months. The company clarified that the incomplete week’s regime applies to all AvtoVAZ employees.

In order to maintain the level of employee income during such a regime, the management of the company together with the governor of the Samara region Dmitry Azarov asked the government to allocate money for the “organization of temporary and public works, including on the site of the AvtoVAZ Industrial Park, with payment of the fifth day due to federal budget funds. “