PAZ launches a four-day work week

Pavlovsky Bus Plant goes launches a four-day working week. This was reported to the AUTOSTAT agency in the press service of the GAZ Group, noting that the shortened schedule is being introduced in connection with the fall in demand for passenger vehicles against the backdrop of a pandemic.

In April and May, plant sales decreased by more than 40%, the volume of orders for June fell already by 60%. A four-day work week is introduced at PAZ from June 19th to December 18th. Due to the underload of the plant, it was also decided to postpone corporate vacation to June, which is held annually in late July - early August: PAZ production will be suspended from June 22 to July 5.

“If the demand situation remains equally difficult, the company will be forced to consider a further reduction in the PAZ work schedule in order to ensure the operation of the enterprise in accordance with the dropped load,” - GAZ Group’s press service added. PAZ is the leader in the Russian market for small and medium-sized buses. In serial production of the Pavlovsky Bus Plant – there are more than 100 modifications of front-engine buses for various purposes.