OREANDA-NEWS  Yaroslavl Shipbuilding Plant (YASZ), whose main customer is the Ministry of Defense, has not paid wages for more than two months. This is reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda with reference to the interviewed employees of the enterprise.

According to them, the last time the money was credited to the account was in September, but the employees did not see either the advance payment on the 29th or the salary on October 14th. The management of YASZ promised that they would repay the debts on October 23, but the salaries were never paid.

"They say at meetings that the Ministry of Defense does not transfer money for the order," one of the employees told reporters. Another pointed out that information is constantly changing, and deadlines are being postponed further and further, which is why staff are starting to leave.

There have been no mass layoffs yet, but some are taking vacations and sick leave, and they are also applying for suspension of work under Article 142 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation due to a delay in wages of more than 15 days while maintaining average earnings.

Prior to this, the media found out that the incident with the tugboat Captain Ushakov, which sank in the Neva River near the berthing wall of the Baltic Shipyard, could cost the refinery 500-900 million rubles, excluding fines and penalties, which would have to be paid separately. The unfinished ship capsized back in August, but despite the demand of the captain of the Grand Port of St. Petersburg, it was not possible to raise it by November 20.

At the plant, the inability to start work is explained by the refusal of the Ministry of Defense to transfer money for completed orders. The tug itself with the Arc4 ice reinforcement category is being built for the Russian Navy.

Earlier it became known that Uralvagonzavod (UVZ), the main supplier of tanks for the Russian army and the country's largest manufacturer of wagons, was preparing to reduce staff.