KAZAN, May 20. / TASS /. More than 250 employees at the Ford Sollers enterprise in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan were dismissed by the agreement of the parties, said the director of the Naberezhnye Chelny Employment Center Tatiana Bydanova at the mayor's office meeting on Monday.
"So far, the first stage of the Ford Sollers has taken place, 266 people were dismissed by agreement of the parties. Employees did not apply to the employment center, only three women asked for advice, the rest were employed independently," she said. As the Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny, Nail Magdeev, noted, that the city administration had predicted that a large number of enterprises that opened within the framework of the priority development area "would be snap up Ford Sollers employees like hotcakes".
In April, the mayor ordered to find jobs for 802 Ford Sollers employees in Naberezhnye Chelny, which represents 94% of the total number of dismissed employees. In total, 851 people and 14 employees of the subsidiary of the company Avtokomponent work at the site. The company decided to release employees by agreement of the parties, payments range from 5.5 to 12 salaries, depending on the length of service.
The Ford Sollers joint venture was formed in October 2011 by the Ford Motor Company and Sollers with equal participation of the parties. At the end of March, the company announced its intention to stop the production of passenger cars in Russia by the end of June 2019. Three Russian plants in Vsevolozhsk, Naberezhnye Chelny and Elabuga will stop producing such models as Ford Focus, Mondeo, Fiesta, Ecosport, Kuga and Explorer.