OREANDA-NEWS. Due to the unstable situation in the heavy truck market and to avoid the overstocking of finished products, November 26th and 27th were announced at KAMAZ as idle days with payment in the amount of two-thirds of the average wage. Also, in accordance with the order of the four-day work week, November 28th will be a day off.

As KAMAZ noted, these measures will save more than 57 million Rubles, to provide the fulfillment of social obligations to the workforce and contribute to the preservation of financial stability of company in the face of declining market.

However, the days of downtime will be used for modernization of the production and installation of new equipment in the framework of the program "Reengineering". There will be also work on the development of the new model range.

Units that are involved in the implementation and delivery of products, manufacture of spare parts, bus chassis and product diversification, as well as some the staff, which is serving continuously the operating production in an amount necessary to maintain them in standby mode, the operation of life support systems and safety property will continue to work by regular schedule. In the days of downtime KAMAZ lawyers, accountants and personnel officers will work partially. In the case of attracting of additional orders, days of downtime will be canceled.