OREANDA-NEWS. Because of demand falling for heavy trucks KAMAZ will reduce the working days in December, and then it will go to the corporate vacation. The press service of the plant informed about it “Prime” agency, by adding that December 29, 30 and 31st were announced at KAMAZ as days of inactivity.

Forced to leave the employees will have salaries in the amount of two-thirds. Immediately after the New Year holidays, on January 12th the staff of plant goes to the corporate vacation until January 25th. During normal operation, only repair and maintenance services will continue to work. "Vacation time will be used for the repair and modernization of equipment, which usually works around the clock", - explained at KAMAZ.

In November, KAMAZ also reduced working hours for three days due to low demand for trucks. Days of downtime were announced November 26 and 27 and on November 28th KAMAZ staff did not go to work due to enterprise order to move to a 4-day working week. These measures enabled the company to save more than 57 million Rubles.

During the first 9 months of 2014 KAMAZ decreased car sales by 13.5% to 23,013 units. The total Russian market of trucks with GVW of 14-40 tonnes during the same period was 52.4 thousand cars, which is less by 8.8% compared to the same period of the last year.