Russia Will Start Switching Enterprises To A Part-time Working Week
- 16.07.2025, 18:48
Because of the difficult economic situation.
A number of companies in the Sverdlovsk region will transfer employees to part-time work, as well as reduce staff due to the difficult financial situation, the director of the regional labor and employment department Dmitriy Antonov said at a local government meeting. According to him, "changes in the economy" are forcing companies to "redistribute labor resources," writes The Mocow Times.
Wherever layoffs are planned, the department is conducting "on-site counseling of workers," offering retraining programs and other vacancies.
The Sverdlovsk Region's Ministry of Industry and Science, in turn, is trying to help the companies themselves "maintain financial and economic stability and level out the financial and economic situation in the region. The head of the ministry, Sergey Perestoronin, said that the authorities are assisting "in finding investors, developing cooperation ties, and in applying for support from the federal and regional industrial development funds." The authorities did not name specific enterprises. However, earlier the transition to a four-day working week was announced by the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CEMK), which was nationalized in 2024. It plans to do so from September 1 at all its production facilities, including the Serov Ferroalloy Plant. The measures will affect 1,200 employees.
The management explained these actions as an "anti-crisis program" taken "due to significant currency volatility, unfavorable conditions on ferroalloy markets, a significant drop in consumer demand and the need to ensure the financial and economic stability of CHEMK."
In addition, it was reported about plans to transfer to a three-day working week the employees of Uralasbest, which is engaged in the extraction of chrysotile, production of non-metallic building materials, roofing and facade products, as well as production of thermal insulation.
In turn, employees of the Ural Pipe Plant (Uraltrubprom) in Pervouralsk complained about mass layoffs. They said that they were forced to write applications because of a shortage of orders and that the management had decided to get rid of more than 500 people. In addition, the staff of the Venta machine-building plant in Nizhneturinsk was reduced from 4,000 to 300 workers, the enterprise's general director, Alexander Balashov, said in mid-June.