The meeting was initiated by the order of President Sadyr Japarov and gathered representatives of the relevant government agencies, as well as the management and employees of the factory. The current state of the enterprise, production volumes, salaries, social issues, and measures aimed at preserving the factory were discussed.
At the meeting held on December 30, the First Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Jalal-Abad region, Nurlan Ermatov, met with the factory staff, where issues regarding salary payments and the company's future prospects were also raised. At that time, it became known that 550 employees would be temporarily sent on unpaid leave while awaiting an investor.
Earlier, workers of the Mailuu-Suu Lamp Factory had appealed to the authorities with complaints about salary delays, which had not been paid for three months, as well as about the unstable operation of the enterprise and layoffs. According to them, the factory has been functioning intermittently for about two years, and employees work only a few days a week.
The factory's problems are not new: its warehouse has accumulated unsold products worth over 260 million soms due to declining demand, including the consequences of the exit from the markets of Russia and neighboring countries.
The Mailuu-Suu Lamp Factory was established in 1964. During the Soviet era, it produced up to 1 billion lamps per year; however, after the collapse of the USSR, production volumes sharply decreased. In 2009, the factory was declared bankrupt and subsequently came under state management.
