Asipovichy Automobile Units Plant works four-day weeks

• 11.04.2013, 16:10

Staff members of the plant have been ordered to take an unpaid leave for several days.

Charter97.org learnt if from a reader with a link to the plant's workers.

“All engineers and technicians were ordered orally to take a two-day unpaid leave in April. One of the days must be Friday. There is no official order, of course,” he said.

It means that personnel will work eight instead of ten days in the nearest two weeks.

A charter97.org correspondent contacted the office of director, Viktar Anatonenka, but failed to learn any details about the initiative. “There was not an official order. For more information, please, contact Andrei Chyhileichyk, the deputy director responsible for personnel, ideology and social issues,” the correspondent was told in the office.

Chyhileichyk does not pick up the office phone. Workers say the compulsory leave was his initiative.

The Joint Stock Company Asipovichy Automobile Units Plant is among Belarus's largest manufacturers of motor vehicle and agricultural machinery components. The company is part of BelaavtoMAZ group of companies. BelaavtoMAZ's leading company has been working four-day weeks since March.

Asipovichy Automobile Units Plant produces parts, assembly units and components using aluminum castings, glass-reinforced plastic, plastic casting, foam polyurethane and dicyclopentadiene resin.