About one-third of workers Samara company "Aviakor" were not popular due to the suspension of production of aircraft An-140 and will be employed under the program of temporary employment, told reporters on the last working day of the week the General Director of the enterprise Alexey Gusev.

"The events in Ukraine made it impossible to project An-140, and has been an uneven load on different plots. In order to save jobs, we are engaged in the program of temporary employment. Currently, the program employs about 30% of the workforce. We had the opportunity to reduce them or to translate them into two-thirds. But we chose not to do that, " He said.

According to Gusev, the Company has reduced In the current year, About 10% of employees. This team of employees. First it was claimed that "Avtor" wishes to reduce Approximately 200 employees. The exact number of abbreviated Gusev was not called. He also said that the Company is not willing to lay off workers, a major production in the near future expect a large order from the Russian Ministry of defense.

The temporary employment program is implemented at the enterprise together With the regional Ministry of labour. It will involve About five hundred workers. The staff will be busy 3 days per week on primary production, the other two on the other. According to Guseva, they will be engaged in the dismantling, transfer and disposal of equipment, collection of scrap metal and putting in order of jobs.

Aviacor received 23 million rubles for the implementation of measures for temporary employment. The funds have come from Federal and regional budgets. For each employee, the regional authorities allocate about 11,200 rubles. The company has already used this program during the fall in 2009.

The company "Aviakor" at the time stopped the project for the production of An-140 because of the situation in Ukraine. Enterprise security purposes ceased to prepay Ukrainian suppliers for their work. At the meeting With the head of the state Vladimir Putin in June 2014, the General Director of the Aviakor " Alexey Gusev said that 3 aircraft An-140 for the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation will be assembled from available parts.

An-140 - Ukrainian-Russian regional turboprop passenger Aircraft developed by Antonov ASTC " Antonov ". The liner can carry up to 52 passengers over distances up to 2, 3 thousand kilometers. The aircraft is manufactured at the Kharkov state aircraft manufacturing company and at the Samara aviation plant " Aviacor ".

JSC "Aviacor - aviation Enterprise" is one of the largest Russian aircraft manufacturing plants. The main sphere of activity is the construction, repair, maintenance and supply of spare parts for passenger aircraft Tu-154M and An-140.

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