IZHEVSK. Dec 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that decreasing the number of the Kalashnikov concern employees was out of the question.
Rogozin said during a meeting with concern employees on Thursday that he was utterly opposed to cutting the staff of the enterprise established in 2013 on the basis of two Izhevsk factories - Izhmash and Izhmekh.
"The growth of workforce productivity should not always lead to personnel cuts. On the contrary, if you increase production, create new lines and start producing new a variety of products, you will need personnel, probably the number of people will even go up," Rogozin said.
The concern should go through modernization and go through the shock that happens when two enterprises merge, the deputy prime minister said. "Then follows modernization, determining the market you are facing and you are to fill, creating new high-quality products and establishing a new management system of reasonable and diligent business," he said.
In six months the concern hired 500 people and other 1,500 jobs have not been filled, Kalashnikov Concern General Director Konstantin Busygin said.
Kalashnikov intends to produce 150,000 guns, without taking into account civil products, which has grown two-fold year on year.