Why did PM have cold hands at Baranavichy cotton mill?

Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich visited the Baranavichy Cotton Production Company to watch the progress of modernization. The modernization is planned until 2015, but it's planned for completion as early as this year. 

According to him, after the upgrade the enterprise will surpass the record of 1975, when it produced 88 million square meters of fabric - this is good news. But there is also not very good piece of news - by 2016 the number of employees will be reduced by 3.5 times. Now the company employs about 2.6 thousand people. So, is it necessary to lay off nearly 1,800 people? Where will these people find jobs? 

"There are a lot of pensioners. Contracts expire, and pensioners leave. Our people will not turn out on the street - we'll move them. Spinning mill will be cut, but people will move to other productions. Now we have about about 2.6 thousand people," said an employee at the HR department of the enterprise. We have vacancies for mecanical technicians with a salary of 2.9 million rubles. 

According to the Euroradio, on April 1, the company employed about 2.7 thousand people (i.e. a hundred had already been reduced), about a thousand employees at the age of 50 years old and older. Let's think of them as retiring soon, but there are still nearly 800 left! 

There are not many places for work in Baranavichy. Using the data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, we found there 644 vacancies in three weeks. The biggest salary we have come across was 7 million rubles for a locksmith with higher education. 

Euroradio managed to get through to enterprise workers and asked them if people were fired en masse. 

"We have a lot of pensioners in the company, they do not get their contracts renewed. Others are offered jobs in other departments. We have a woman who is already 60, and she herself wants to retire because she is tired. Of course, I think that the company will not leave the people in the street." A female worker said, the average salary was about 4.6 million rubles.

In the photographs of the government visit we notice that the Prime Minister and his entourage are hiding their hands in the pockets, it is evident that they are cold. And one of the workers is wearing a sweater, robe and a padded jacket. At the enterprise we are told that the temperature in many shops is "normal, 16-18 degrees." 

Moreover, until recently, people here worked using the equipment from 1964-1965! It is about knitting machines and looms. The woman is laughing, but says that these machines work well. 

"It is crazy here! I agree with you, modernization is happening, they are doing something good and bad, taking away some equipment, bring in some other machines. Imagine it at home - a furniture set is on its way out, another one is coming in,n such a mess. Often, it is hard to work - the woman admits. But I have not noticed that something changed."