AvtoVAZ announced a six-day work schedule on the production lines of Lada Granta and Niva in March. This was announced by the chairman of the primary trade union organization of the company Sergey Zaitsev in a conversation with Interfax.
“According to the order “On working on weekends in March 2023”, work should be organized on weekends on March 4, 11, 18 and 25 in the divisions of the car assembly complex engaged in the production of cars of the Niva family – in daytime shifts of 8 hours, of the Granta family “On 12-hour day shifts,” he said.
Against the backdrop of sanctions after the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, AvtoVAZ had difficulties with imported spare parts, as a result of which the company’s plants went into idle time several times. Production resumed only in June 2022. In August last year, the company managed to return all enterprises to a five-day work week. Until the end of February, a six-day work schedule with a rolling day off was provided for the plant in Togliatti.
Now cars of the Granta, Niva Legend and Niva Travel families are produced in Togliatti. At the beginning of August 2022, the production of Vesta was also transferred from Izhevsk to the plant in Tolyatti, where it will begin to be produced this spring. The production of new e-Largus will begin at the plant in Izhevsk, and spare parts for Lada Vesta will also continue.