About 5,000 Metinvest employees from these cities have applied to continue working for the company.
The largest private company in Ukraine Metinvest lost business in temporarily occupied Mariupol and because of shelling the coke plant in Avdiivka was closed. Their employees are integrated into other businesses. The Group CEO said Metinvest Yuri Ryzhenkov in an interview published on Tuesday 4 July.
“Today, almost 5 thousand of our employees from these cities have applied that they want to work in the company, but only 1.5 thousand have found a job. Others are taking courses that can change their profession or improve their skills for new jobs. ,” said Ryzhenkov.
According to him, further integration is happening quickly, because all these people, metallurgists and miners work together and know the equipment and units, so they quickly adapt to the workplace.
“Many of them are waiting to go home. I know many who, for example, came from Mariupol to work in Zaporizhstal or Kametstal. They occupy normal positions, but dream of returning to Mariupol,” said the CEO.
Ryzhenkov mentioned that Metinvest Incoming Rehab (76) – [email protected] – Gmaillitation of war-wounded workers in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“We have several initiatives working in this direction. The biggest is Heart of Azovstala special project aimed at supporting the families and the defenders of Mariupol themselves, who at the beginning of a massive attack defended the city, and then in the fortress. Azovstal. In particular, they include our employees. Some were or are still in captivity. For them and their families, we have an assistance program that contains many aspects,” he stressed.
Ryzhenkov remembered that too Metinvest through the project Save a life helping all other defenders of Ukraine with prosthetics and psychological rehabilitation.
Earlier it was reported that since the beginning of the war with Russia, almost 8 thousand employees joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Metinvest – in fact, every sixth. The company itself is actively helping the army as part of the military initiative steel front.
Source: korrespondent
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