OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 February 2009 Yekaterinburg Employment Center’s deputy director Anatoly Kudryashov said, that ‘Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation reports 79 people are to be made redundant throughout January and February 2009.

‘All in all, we’ve heard from seventy enterprises that are going to switch their workers to part-time mode, including Verkh-Isetskiy Metallurgical Plant and Stroytechservice,’ he added.

‘Uralmashzavod announced 2,317 people would be working part time soon, with another 309 people going on unpaid leaves,’ Anatoly Kudryashov noted.

UralBusinessConsulting Agency of Information and Analytics found out that a shorter working week affected the people employed at the enterprise’s engineering, designing, economic, and marketing departments. In addition to getting one extra day off work, these employees now work about six hours a day. A number of workers have also been informed that this status quo might last until up to June 30, 2009.