Companies of the russian defense industrial corporations "Rostec", "Roscosmos" and "Almaz-Antey" located near the Urals have adopted a six-day-a-week, 12-hour working schedule.
The list of companies to resort to this includes "Uralvagonzavod" as the main producer of tanks for the russian army, "Uraltransmash" as the main artillery supplier and the companies making the electronics for missile guidance, surface-to-air missiles in particular. The information comes from a russian TASS media resource with reference to the chairman of a local trade union organization Andrey Vetluzhskikh.
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As stated, the russian law allows russian defense industrial companies to adopt a schedule of six days per week and extend the working hours up to 12 per day without a hitch.
The employees will receive higher pay in accordance with the extended working day while the workers of "civilian" specialties (such as the production of railway locomotives or trams at "Uraltransmash") will continue with their usual 8-hour schedule.
According to the russian propaganda media outlet, the transition to the new working plan comes without any increase in production by state order. It seems the actual reason behind this is the lack of personnel for the russian defense industry.
According to open source data, as of November 2022, the shortage in the russian military industry was about 20,000 qualified workers. In order to cover the "personnel gap", russian regional governors are trying to attract the unemployed by promising relocation and benefits. The leadership of the "Uralvagonzavod" even resorted to hiring 250 prisoners for low-qualification works at the armored vehicles department.
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