The crisis at the microelectronics flagship: Zelenograd-based Micron is shedding employees through forced layoffs.
The flagship of Russian microelectronics, the Tselnograd Micron plant, faced a broad wave of personnel purges. According to the trade union channel "Al Shavim", the company's management started a process of mass extortion of employees, forcing people to write statements of their own free will. The goal of the management is extremely cynical: to avoid legal payments and compensation due to the reduction of official personnel.
According to the workers, hundreds of workers have already come under pressure. The local administration operates harshly and behind the scenes, avoiding compliance with official procedures of labor legislation and notifications to the employment services. Instead of legal restructuring, people are simply forced to leave "on their own".
Such practices in the main factory of domestic microelectronics clearly show the true state of the high-tech sector. While they report from high stands about import substitution, technological sovereignty and record investments, engineers and ordinary workers pay for management's miscalculations with their jobs and livelihoods.