OREANDA-NEWS. Reduction of the car industry and the sphere of transport engineering will not exceed 5%, said the head of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov.

"If we are talking about the current two months of 2015, we have the main problems just in the automotive industry sector, transport engineering. And here the government takes serious measures to support demand in order to ensure (employment) ... of highly qualified specialists”, - said Mr.Manturov at a meeting with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, about the situation in the labor market.

"We suggests a reduction in the amount of approximately 4-5% in these sectors, which is not critical, even with considering the most pessimistic forecasts for economic situation", - said the minister, who is cited by the agency "Finmarket".

According to Mr.Manutrov, people who lose their jobs in the automobile industry and transport engineering, are demanded in other sectors of the industry, who have a certain deficit frames.

Thus, the workers of the stopped General Motors plant in St. Petersburg were in demand in other enterprises of the sector, said the head of Industry and Trade. "Now it is the conservation of one of the foreign companies of St. Petersburg manufacturers, the company General Motors. About 900 people will be released", - the agency "Tass” cited the words of Mr.Manturov. According to him, the authorities want to invite these workers "to go to the shipbuilding sector in the Northwest region”. "But the offer was not made - already companies that are engaged in the production of automotive components in the same sector, invited these people to their work”, - said the minister.