OREANDA-NEWS. 40% of employees can leave Kaluga plant "PSMA Rus" by the end of March. According to the representative of Interregional Trade Union of Workers Association (MPRA) Kaluga Dmitry Kozhnev, who informed the agency Reuters, about 40% of the company's employees, or 800 people, of more than 2 million are working now on fixed-term employment contracts. Most of these contracts are valid until March 31st, and they are unlikely to be extended, he said.

There were no official statements on this issue from the administration of the plant, but the employer has the right to inform about the non-renewal of term contract not later than three days, and the heads of middle managers in informal conversations warn the workers that the contracts likely will not be sustained, says Mr.Kozhnev.

"Currently, there are no plans to reduce workers (plant in Kaluga)", - said the representative of PSA Peugeot Citroen. He did not comment on the existence and the possibility of non-renewal of fixed-term contracts, saying that the staff of the plant employs about 2,200 people.

Car manufacturers, faced with a sharp decline in demand and a poor prognosis for 2015 because of the sharp devaluation of the ruble, sanctions, economic and political problems in Russia, forced to stop temporarily the assembly lines, transfer employees to part-time or dismiss them. AvtoVAZ, which declined the last year, about 13,000 jobs, plans to cut another 1,100 people this year. About the reduction of 700 employees at the end of the last year, it was announced by Ford Sollers, and this year about a hundred people left the plant of Swedish trucks Volvo. Almost all other automakers that are operating in Russia, do not dismiss employees, but reduce the time of the plants due to downtime. As previously reported, the staff of the plant "PSMA Rus" from February 23rd to March 9th, 2015 went into a collective vacation.