OREANDA-NEWS. AvtoVAZ, in addition to May holidays plans to announce the vacation for employees from May 5th to 8th. The Directorate of Public Relations of company informed about it the agency “Interfax”. Thus, employees will have a rest from May 1st to 11th.

"The company plans to add four days of vacation in addition to the all-Russian vacations. At the same time only those who are directly involved in production of cars will have vacations. Services that are preparing production of our promising models Lada Vesta and Lada Xray, will continue to work," - said the representative of AvtoVAZ. In total, according to him, about 5,000 employees will stay to work during vacations.

A company representative also explained that employees worked in advance these days on Saturdays. "That is, those cars that could not be produced during the holidays, have already been made in advance," - he said.

Earlier, the president of AvtoVAZ, Bo Andersson, reported that the issue about the adjusting of the production schedule of the plant will depend on the outcome of the March sales.

AvtoVAZ in March sold in the Russian market 27 423 cars – it is less by 26% than the year before. For the first three months of 2015 Russian dealers of Lada sold 68,554 cars, which is less by 25.2% than a year ago.