OREANDA-NEWS. The production Volkswagen Group Rus, which is hosted on Gorky Automobile Plant site, worked for the last two months in the mode of a four-day working week, will go into a corporate holiday in May.

According to the press service of Volkswagen Group Rus, the production site at the car plant GAZ, on which the contract assembly of Volkswagen models and Skoda is implemented, will be in the corporate holiday from May 5 to 25th, 2015. The company also noted that since the last week the production of Volkswagen and Skoda models at GAZ car plant works on a five-day schedule. After the end of the corporate holiday the production schedule will remain the same, says the agency "Prime".

Earlier it was reported that the production of Volkswagen Group Rus in Nizhny Novgorod in March switched to a four-day work week regime, which, as planned, was to last until the end of April.

In summer of 2011, Volkswagen signed with a "GAZ Group" agreement on contract assembly of Volkswagen and Skoda in the facilities of GAZ. The design production capacity is 132,000 cars a year. The total investment in equipment and infrastructure is 300 million Euros. In Nizhny Novgorod, there are produced models Skoda Yeti, Volkswagen Jetta and the new Skoda Octavia A7.