Employee Care

The Group entities attract top professionals and continue to strengthen their staff support systems. The Social Policy of the Gazprom Group helps boost staff motivation to work efficiently and over a long term. This policy relies on long-term programs designed to attract and retain qualified professionals with the required expertise.

Social payments are made to all Group staff, including select staff categories (employees with family responsibilities, workers who have multi-child families and children with disabilities, pensioners and members of their families).

Medical care is provided to employees, former employees (retirees) of the Gazprom Group entities, and members of their families under voluntary medical insurance (VMI) contracts and under direct contracts with healthcare institutions.

Personal insurance. In addition to compulsory social insurance, the Gazprom Group’s employees enjoy voluntary accident and health insurance coverage where insured risks are disability or death as a result of an accident or disease, as well as a newly diagnosed critical illness.

Housing support is provided to employees as a way to preserve and strengthen the Gazprom Group’s talent pool in the long term. The relevant corporate program is co-funded by employees and the employer and uses mortgage loans.

Voluntary personal social insurance provided to employees working under an employment contractInformation provided for PJSC Gazprom, its representative offices, branches and subsidiaries involved in core business activities and infrastructure entities included in PJSC Gazprom’s budgeting.

PJSC Gazprom provides social support to employees with families.

Social benefits and payments for families

1. Financial assistance
   • One-off financial assistance for employees upon their first marriage and the birth (adoption or guardianship) of a child;
   • Monthly childcare allowance for employees on parental leave until the child turns three;
   • Financial aid to employees with multichild families and children with disabilities, as well as to employees who are single parents;
   • Financial assistance for children of deceased employees, including support for university education and a monthly allowance for brilliant academic performance;
   • Compensation for the cost of children’s health resort stays, and reimbursement of kindergarten and extracurricular education expenses (clubs, classes, etc.).
2. Housing support
   • Enhanced housing benefits for employees with children;
   • Priority access for multi-child families to improved housing conditions;
   • Payments to multi-child families for partial repayment of the principal mortgage debt, including additional support at the birth of the next child.
3. Staff recreation
   • Recreation opportunities for the Gazprom Group’s employees and their families at 64 corporate resorts, including 11 designated for children’s recreation.

PJSC Gazprom runs a corporate nongovernmental pension program for employees under agreements signed by PJSC Gazprom with Non-State Pension Fund GAZFOND. The program provides social guarantees to employees after their retirement by paying additional nongovernmental pensions to those who meet certain requirements.

This classic corporate pension arrangement covers employees who have worked at PJSC Gazprom entities for at least 15 years and have reached the pension age.

New pension arrangements may include additional parameters such as the retired employee’s position and achievements. Pension programs are implemented depending on the Gazprom Group entity’s financial position and may imply co-financing on the part of employees.

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

In 2024, over 144,700 people received pensions under pension contracts (up 2% year-on-year due to an increase in the number of employees who reached the statutory pension age).

The Gazprom Group places special emphasis on employee health and longevity. The Company’s employees, retirees and their families have access to comprehensive medical care. The Gazprom Group’s employees are eligible for preventive health examinations, including annual screenings. We also create healthy lifestyle environment.

The center of accountability in the Gazprom Group’s corporate healthcare management system is the Directorate of PJSC Gazprom, which develops and implements uniform medical care approaches, monitors healthcare quality, and ensures compliance with sanitary and epidemiological requirements. All subsidiaries and entities engaged in core operations have designated centers of accountability for corporate medical services, well-defined healthcare development vision, and plans to build a modern medical care system.

In the reporting year, PJSC Gazprom adopted a set of corporate documents governing medical support and sanitary and epidemiological well-being across the Group:

• Regulation on Medical Care at PJSC Gazprom, its Subsidiaries and EntitiesApproved by PJSC Gazprom’s resolution No. 74 dated March 14, 2024.;
• Regulation on Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-Being at PJSC Gazprom, its Subsidiaries and EntitiesApproved by PJSC Gazprom’s resolution No. 550 dated November 7, 2024.;
• Procedure for Interaction between Sanitary and Epidemiological Experts and Occupational Safety Personnel at PJSC Gazprom, its Subsidiaries and EntitiesApproved by administrative document of PJSC Gazprom No. 04-19 dated October 21, 2024..

The reporting year saw improvements in employee satisfaction with the quality and speed of medical care. We recorded a drop in economic losses associated with lost time injuries across the Gazprom Group.

In 2024, the Group’s subsidiaries and entities introduced a new approach to medical care planning with a focus on developing Plans for Establishing a Modern Corporate Healthcare System. Furthermore, the Company joined forces with Gazprom Corporate Institute’s occupational healthcare department to roll out a new healthcare staff training format reflecting today’s best practices in medical education and the specific needs of the oil and gas industry. The Gazprom Group also developed standard job descriptions and a model competency profile for the management and professionals of medical services at its subsidiaries and entities.

PJSC Gazprom signs VMI contracts with insurance companies, which arrange and pay for medical services and preventive measures at designated medical organizations, or, if not possible, at third-party healthcare institutions included in the VMIScope of healthcare services provided to the insured person under VMI program . The scope of relevant medical services is defined in voluntary medical insurance programs. Insured employees, retirees, and members of their families receive outpatient and inpatient care, as well as health resort and rehabilitation treatment under medical indications. VMI programs may also cover antenatal care and obstetric services in line with the national trend to protect maternity and childhood, while also providing for specific arrangements to prevent flu and other infectious diseases.

In 2024, the Company developed and approved the Procedure for Auditing Third-Party Medical Institutions for Compliance with the Standards of PJSC Gazprom, and prepared prequalification documents for the category of Medical Services.

The reduction in rehabilitation treatment expenditures in 2024 resulted from the optimization of medical care approaches under VMI contracts.

In 2024, expenditure on preparing and holding healthcare events for employees and their families rose by 4.2%, including a 4.5% increase per employee. This growth was driven by the introduction of innovative approaches to employee health management, repair and outfitting of medical infrastructure facilities, and the commissioning and finishing of healthcare infrastructure facilities at the Kovyktinskoye gas condensate field.

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

The interests of the 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 2024, the increase in the Gazprom Workers’ Union membership was 2.4% year-on-year.

The Gazprom Workers’ Union actively engages with employees across the Gazprom Group and promptly responds to their claims. In 2024, most employee inquiries contained requests for clarifications of applicable labor laws, provisions of the general collective bargaining agreement, and state and local regulations, including the Regulation on Remuneration and Social Guarantees for Retirees. Employees also raised issues concerning employment, housing and pension relations, as well as social and economic interests of trade union members.

Effective communication and a unified information space play a crucial role in promoting and strengthening the corporate identity. They help foster team cohesion, reinforce shared values, and create a common cultural and informational environment.

PJSC Gazprom places a special emphasis on corporate sports, and encourages its employees to exercise more. Corporate sports are promoted as part of the Gazprom Group’s social policy.

PJSC Gazprom actively participates in major national sports events to promote and preserve Russia’s traditional family values.

Russia’s Ski Track is the largest nationwide ski race that has been open to both amateurs and professionals since 1982. Skiing unites hundreds of thousands of people of all ages and occupations. Each year, the Gazprom Group staff and their families take part in the race, with approximately 5,000 employees from 28 subsidiaries joining the event in 2024.

Nation’s Cross Country Race is the largest mass sporting event in Russia by the number of participants and geographical outreach. It has been held since 2004. Open to all age groups and fitness levels, the competition offered participants distances from 1 to 12 km. In 2024, some 4,000 amateur runners from the Gazprom Group entities took part in the regional events across the country.

An updated set of GTO fitness tests was revived in 2014 to serve as an organizational and regulatory framework for the country’s efforts to promote physical training. The Gazprom Group began implementing it in 2017, with more than 76,500 employees having taken the tests since then. In 2024, some 13,000 employees joined the initiative. 4,000 of them received gold distinction badges, 2,500 — silver, and 2,500 — bronze.

The Gazprom Group entities actively encourage their employees to engage in regular physical activities and sports. Occupational physical training sessions are held throughout the working day, with the Company regularly organizing weekend gatherings, corporate fitness and sports festivals, hiking trips, and mass fitness and sports activities, including in disciplines enlisted in the Gazprom Spartakiada Games.

In 2024, Ufa hosted the Second Ice Hockey Cup of the Gazprom Workers’ Union organized jointly with Transgaz Ufa. The tournament attracted 12 teams from subsidiaries of PJSC Gazprom. The Gazprom Workers’ Union Cup was awarded to the team of Gazprom Pererabotka.