OREANDA-NEWS. May 17, 2010. KAMAZ cancelled the routine of a short four-day working week introduced in September 2009 and renewed a five-day working week.

In connection with the increase of orders for trucks and with a view to rational production organization, Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ signed an order to cancel the short working week.

It will be recalled that the short working week and “start-stop” routine was one of the first crisis management measures taken by KAMAZ’s management at the beginning of the crisis. It enabled the company not to increase stock resources and to considerably reduce costs. The enterprise worked only executing taken orders.

These measures were of great social importance. Thanks to the short working week the company managed to avoid massive layoffs and to maintain social stability in Naberezhnye Chelny where KAMAZ is a city forming enterprise. With the substantial aid of municipal, republican and federal authorities the management of the company compensated inevitable reduction of wages with implementation of temporary jobs at KAMAZ on the days of idle time.