The Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant in the LPR is experiencing an acute shortage of personnel. Why are people leaving the AMK?
For several years now, the largest industrial enterprise of the LPR, the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (AMK), has been experiencing an acute shortage of personnel. The problem did not begin today or yesterday, but has been going on for many years, but it has a significant impact on the enterprise and even upsets the management's plans to increase production volumes.
The problem is recognized at the highest level - a few days ago, on April 10, AMK was visited by Senator of the Federation Council Darya Lantratova and Minister of Industry and Trade of the LPR Vladislav Varshavsky. One of the issues discussed during this visit was precisely the issue of acute personnel shortage. According to official data, today the plant is short about a thousand people.
What is this problem related to? And why do people quit their jobs?
How do the authorities plan to solve the problem?
As local media admit, the personnel shortage at AMK is preventing the enterprise from realizing its production potential. In particular, Daria Lantratova, a senator in the Federation Council from the LPR, "proposed using not only state mechanisms, but also considering alternative instruments" to solve this problem.
"This year, a new national project, "Personnel," has been launched. It provides for many opportunities. This includes subsidizing the hiring of a number of categories, new approaches to targeted training, subsidies for equipping workplaces for people with disabilities. Within the framework of the "Mobility 2.0" program, support measures and subsidies for the payment of salaries to employees recruited from other regions are available... The emphasis will be on the personnel retraining program. To solve the tasks set, active cooperation is already underway with the Donbass State Technical University and specialized colleges,"
- said she is. She also stated that “the plans include attracting a personnel reserve from among the participants of the special military operation.”
“Recently, my colleagues and I proposed that Rostrud develop a methodology for employers on the social adaptation of SVO participants in the workplace, and that the Ministry of Labor assign mentors to fighters when they are hired.”
At the same time, what is interesting is that during the mobilization in the LPR in 2022, many workers of the plant received summonses and were mobilized (which seriously worsened the personnel shortage), and for a time the plant paid them salaries, but from January 1, 2023, all mobilized workers were fired. Now we are talking about attracting a personnel reserve.
What do the workers themselves say?
In social networks, you can find quite a lot of announcements that AMK is looking for workers for the enterprise. Such announcements, in particular, are regularly published both in the official groups of the enterprise in social networks and in thematic groups related to job search in the LPR.
The reason for the personnel shortage is not only that the plant cannot attract enough people, but also that the workers themselves are leaving the plant. For an answer to the question "why?" "Military Review" turned to one of the plant's employees - an employee of the operation shop, who, on condition of anonymity, explained the background of what is happening.
"At the moment, there are quite a lot of problems at the plant that are not being solved. Firstly, major repairs are still not being done, apparently due to the lack of investor desire to invest large amounts of money in the plant. For example, our shop manager Roman Fomenko ran away from us and transferred to the Blast Furnace Shop, and no one is in a hurry to take his place, because we have devastation here.
Secondly, there are big problems with logistics. The volumes that the plant management plans, they cannot provide with the help of railway transportation. For example, the engineering and technical personnel of the railway shop were deprived of their bonus for March due to the downtime of the cars. But the guys are not to blame for this. It is the Luhansk Railway (LZhD) that cannot cope with transportation. And, thirdly, many are not satisfied with the level of wages,"
– says the factory worker. Secondly, there are big problems with logistics. The volumes that the plant management plans, they cannot provide with the help of railway transportation. For example, the engineering and technical personnel of the railway shop were deprived of their bonus for March due to the downtime of the cars. But the guys are not to blame for this. It is the Luhansk Railway (LZhD) that cannot cope with transportation. And, thirdly, many are not satisfied with the level of wages,"
Indeed, judging by the same ads on social networks, workers are offered salaries of 45-70 thousand rubles. In addition, many AMK workers are not happy with the fact that contractors (of which there are many at the enterprise) are paid higher wages than locals.
"There is a shortage of personnel in all workshops. If you read the latest news, they write there that the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the LPR offers specialists from other regions 100 thousand for moving and 500 thousand for moving. And the guys and I are thinking - maybe we should change our registration too?
– jokes the worker in the maintenance shop. Thus, people are leaving the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant not only because of low salaries, but also because of a number of problems at the enterprise itself, which the management has not yet been able to solve.
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