The company has also begun offering retired workers meals at the canteen so they can share knowledge of recently re-started lines producing Soviet-era ammunition for Ukraine, he added.
Jiri Hynek, president and executive director of the Defence and Security Industry Association (DSIA) of the Czech Republic, told Reuters a lack of workers could push production out of central Europe.
The association, which represents more than 160 companies, said exports accounted for around 90 percent of the industry's production of weapons and military-related supplies.
Of that, Hynek estimated that supplies of military equipment to Ukraine accounted for 40% of exports.
PITCHING PATRIOTISMOther sectors in Poland – emerging Europe's biggest economy – and the Czech Republic have struggled in recent years to find workers: a situation that has driven up labor costs and dampened growth.
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