KIEV, Feb. 20 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih has announced the conducting of the first and second stages of the program on the voluntary retirement of workers in 2013 in the period from March 18 to March 29 inclusively, reads an official report of the company in the Metallurg corporate newspaper.

The report says that applications at the first stage can be submitted in the period from February 18 to February 22 inclusively, and workers will retire from February 25 to February 28, 2013 inclusively.

At this stage, applications are submitted from March 4 to March 15 inclusively and workers will retire from March 18 to March 29 inclusively.