News Companies ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih 1286 30 March 2026
The payment will be made along with the March 2026 paycheck
On March 27, 2026, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih held a staff conference to review the implementation of the collective bargaining agreement for 2025. One of the key decisions made was to pay employees 50% of their average monthly salary based on their performance over the past year.
Due to the security situation, the event was held online. It was attended by 124 delegates out of 138 elected from the company’s structural units, as well as representatives of management and trade unions. Natalya Marynyuk, chair of the primary organization of the Ukrainian Metalworkers’ Union, was elected chair of the conference.
The first item on the agenda was a review of the implementation of the collective agreement for 2025. Kateryna Zaloznykh, Director of the Human Resources Department, and Serhiy Teslyuk, Acting Deputy General Director for Occupational Health and Safety, delivered reports on the matter. One of the central issues was the payment of bonuses based on the results of work in 2025.
Mauro Longobardo, the company’s General Director, noted that 2025 was one of the most challenging years for the plant, the city, the industry, and the entire country. According to him, the company’s performance was negatively impacted by the energy crisis, blackouts, attacks on infrastructure, emergency shutdowns, as well as changes in conditions on the European market, particularly the introduction of the CBAM. Despite this, the company maintained operations, fulfilled its obligations to employees and the state, and sustained production and logistics chains.
The conference also highlighted that the company remains unprofitable, and since the start of the full-scale war, the parent company has already invested over $1.2 billion in its Ukrainian division. Given the difficult financial and economic situation and the failure to meet the targets for the 13th-month bonus, it was decided to pay employees of the company and its subsidiaries a bonus equal to 50% of their average monthly salary for time actually worked in 2025. The payment will be made along with the March 2026 salary.
In addition, the delegates made changes to the membership of the company’s standing joint committees. As a result, the report on the implementation of the collective agreement for 2025 was approved.
It should be noted that ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is seeing a further deterioration in the situation regarding energy and logistics costs, which continues to put pressure on production economics. Electricity remains a key problem for the plant—not only due to its high cost but also due to the instability of supply.
