Employee Сare

Voluntary personal social insurance provided to employees working under an employment contract  Information provided for PJSC Gazprom, its representative offices, branches, and subsidiaries involved in core business activities and infrastructure entities included in PJSC Gazprom’s budgeting. 2 Temporary employment refers to fixed-term employment contracts

The Gazprom Group has in place non-governmental pension plans for its employees under the corporate pension program. They are implemented in line with pension contracts signed by PJSC Gazprom’s entities with Non-State Pension Fund GAZFOND. The program provides social guarantees to employees after retirement through paying additional non-governmental pensions upon meeting certain requirements.

This classic corporate pension arrangement covers employees who have worked at PJSC Gazprom’s entities for at least 15 years and by the time of retirement are entitled to receive an old-age pension.

Under the new pension schemes, pension capital may be calculated using additional parameters such as the retired employee’s position and achievements. Pension programs are implemented depending on the entity’s financial position, including with the employee’s co-financing.

Social guarantees for PJSC Gazprom’s retirees are based on payments by PJSC Gazprom and its subsidiaries. Such payments are harmonized across the Group, with some of them reflecting the employment period.

• Perform mandatory health check-ups prescribed by the Russian laws;
• perform medical screenings, monitoring, and other types of preventive health examinations;
• implement programs to prevent occupational diseases;
• organize health resort treatment and employee vacations.

The Gazprom Group maintains a close-knit team, fosters common values, develops and affirms its corporate identity thanks to efficient communication channels and an integrated information environment within the Group. To that end, we use different communication channels to maximize the coverage and engagement of the Gazprom Group’s employees.

PJSC Gazprom supports national focus on health improvements, places a special emphasis on corporate sports, and encourages its employees to exercise more. We develop corporate sports as part of corporate culture and the Gazprom Group’s social policy in order to strengthen corporate values and traditions and improve team cohesion and psychological microclimate. Sports initiatives contribute to our employees’ health and provide an incentive for better work and performance.

In August 2023, we approved the Corporate Sports Development Program of PJSC Gazprom, its subsidiaries and entitiesApproved by order of PJSC Gazprom No. 310 dated August 21, 2023., which envisages an effective corporate sports management system and various sports events for the Gazprom Group’s employees.

Objectives of the Corporate Sports Development Program

• Promoting physical activity, mass sports and healthy lifestyle as part of corporate culture, developing a regular habit for physical exercise and sports among employees, as well as motivation for leading a healthy lifestyle;
• creating an environment for physical exercise and sports, organizing and holding physical training and sports events;
• establishing an efficient corporate sports management system, including for managing corporate sports facilities.

As part of the Corporate Sports Development Program, Gazprom Group companies hold different events to encourage employees to do regular physical exercise and sports. Gazprom Group entities have in place occupational physical training sessions during working hours to enhance employee performance. The Group also organizes weekend hikes, corporate sports festivals, hiking trips, and mass sports events, including for sports enlisted in the Gazprom Spartakiada Games. The Gazprom Group’s employees prepare for, and pass the GTO fitness tests.

The Gazprom Group’s largest sports event is the Gazprom Spartakiada Games. It has been held since 1996 in the regions where Gazprom subsidiaries operate. It takes place once every two years alternated between the summer and winter sports. Each event is divided into two stages: first, we hold competitions between standalone structural units of Gazprom subsidiaries, then, the final competitions take place between the subsidiaries themselves.

In May 2023, PJSC Gazprom’s Mountain Tourist Center in Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana, hosted the 9th corporate Fakel Festival. It was attended by over 1,200 participants from 38 subsidiaries and entities representing Russia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan.

We have held the festival since 2004 to unlock the creative potential of the Gazprom Group’s employees and their families. It is a community of talented, active and dedicated people who preserve multinational culture and pass on the best national traditions to the younger generation.

On May 9, 2023, as part of the Victory Day celebration, PJSC Gazprom and the Government of St. Petersburg organized the Unvanquished festival at Gazprom Arena. It included the “Black January. Shrove Sunday” rock oratory dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the events described in The Young Guard novel by Alexander Fadeyev, and wartime songs. The festival’s producers chose a combination of three arts: theater, music, and dance. Music was of various genres: from chamber romances accompanied by acoustic guitar and flute to rock arias with the symphony orchestra of Helikon Opera Moscow Musical Theater.

Apart from the Gazprom Group’s employees, free invitations to the concert were distributed via district administrations and NGOs in St. Petersburg. Around 17,000 people came to see the concert.

In September 2023, Gazprom Arena hosted the City Family Festival “Peter the Great’s Fair” organized by PJSC Gazprom and the Government of St. Petersburg for the city’s residents and guests. Over 15,000 people attended the fair over the course of two days. Laureates of the Fakel Festival representing almost every culture of the multinational Russia performed at the “Peter the Great’s Fair”. The event also featured master classes on creating national souvenirs, entertainment and educational activities for children and adults, and gastronomic exhibitions and fairs with assistance from Gazprom Pitanie branches in different regions across the Gazprom Group’s footprint.

On December 24, 2023, Gazprom Arena hosted a large festive concert Christmas Postcards. Russia’s winter holiday music hits were performed by opera singers accompanied by ballet dancers, popular singers, theater and cinema actors, and the State Symphony Cinema Orchestra led by Sergey Skripka, People’s Artist of Russia. Widely known Christmas and New Year songs in combination with a marvelous exquisite show marked a perfect start for the winter holidays. The concert was attended by 25,000 people, including around 15,000 employees of Gazprom Group entities with families. Part of the invitations were sent to St. Petersburg’s social institutions, veterans, people with disabilities, and university and school students.

The Gazprom Group recognizes the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, and Federal Law No. 10-FZ dated January 12, 1996 On Trade Unions, their Rights and Guarantees of their Activities.

The interests of the Gazprom Group’s employees are represented by the Gazprom Workers’ Union Interregional Organization and its member organizations. The Gazprom Workers’ Union is one of Russia’s largest industrial trade unions.

In 2023, employer-employee relations in the Gazprom Group were based on social partnership, collective bargaining governing social and labor relations, mutual interests recognition, equal treatment, and compliance with labor laws and other regulations ensuring an optimal balance of interests of all parties for efficient delivery on the Gazprom Group’s objectives and performance of its commitments.

Legal regulation of social and labor relations within the Group relies on the labor laws of Russia and other countries of operation, Industry Agreement for 2023–2025 covering companies involved in oil and gas production and the construction of dedicated facilities, General Collective Bargaining Agreement of PJSC Gazprom and its Subsidiaries for 2022–2024, and collective bargaining agreements and other local regulations of the Gazprom Group entities.

In 2023, the Company reported no violations or material risks of violation of employee rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining in the course of operations at the Group’s business units and suppliers. In the reporting period, there were no employee-employer conflicts leading to strikes, halted operations, or collective labor disputes, including those related to violations of the right of freedom of association and collective bargaining.

In 2023, the increase in the Gazprom Workers’ Union membership was 8.5% year-on-year.

The claims mainly contained requests for clarifications of applicable labor laws, provisions of the general collective bargaining agreement, state and local regulations, including the Regulation on Remuneration and Regulation on Social Guarantees for Retirees. In addition, they concerned labor, housing, and pension relations, as well as social and economic interests of the trade union members.

The Gazprom Workers’ Union and trade unions within its structure provide support for participants of the special military operation, including employees of the Gazprom Group entities, their family members, refugees and residents of the new regions. To that end, trade unions hold charity events, collect voluntary donations, and set up support funds. They also organize the collection of humanitarian aid, volunteering at temporary shelters, and donations of medical equipment, materials and supplies for hospitals. In 2022–2023, we sent over 1,950 tons of supplies and humanitarian aid.

The Gazprom Workers’ Union initiated and coordinated a campaign to join the efforts of the Gazprom Group subsidiaries and trade unions to organize summer recreation for 1,025 children from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, and the Zaporizhzhia Region.