HR MANAGEMENT
The following measures were adopted and implemented in 2023 to maintain a high level of social security for the personnel of PJSC Rosseti South, provide employees with guarantees and compensations, and minimise the incidence of diseases among the Company’s personnel:
HEADCOUNT AND PERSONNEL BREAKDOWN
The headcount of employees of PJSC Rosseti South in 2023 totalled 13,567, which is 0.7% lower than in 2022. The decrease resulted from natural staff outflow and refusal to extend the status of a guaranteeing supplier in the area of Elista (Kalmenergo, a branch of Rosseti South).
The staffing level of PJSC Rosseti South for 2023 was 93.4%. Rosseti South’s production staffing level for 2023 was 93.2%.
STAFF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Training is one of the priority areas of the Company’s HR policy.
Key training needs of the Company’s personnel are covered by the corporate training centre of FVE PF Interregional Energy Institute of the South.
The Company’s partners in the field of additional personnel training are also educational organisations that have licences to conduct educational activities in the areas of personnel training required by the Company: operational and technological management, relay protection, grid connection, tariff regulation, information technologies, software, environmental safety, accounting, anti-corruption activities, etc.
The 2023 training events ensured that the Company’s mandatory training plans were met.
In 2023, training of employees in the methods of performing live-wire works in electrical installations up to 1,000 V was continued Under the Roadmap for the introduction of live work technology in
As it was necessary to organise operation of digital substations designed on the basis of S
In 2023, employees of Rosseti South participated in Rosseti’s training
Actual personnel training costs amounted to RUB 86,730.49 thousand, of which RUB 65,662.39 thousand (75.7%) were personnel training costs at the corporate training centre.
Work with the Company’s talent pools
PJSC Rosseti South seeks to form and develop talent pools (managerial and youth talent pools) on an ongoing basis.
The managerial talent pool was created to promptly and qualitatively meet the Company’s needs for employees prepared to work in managerial positions.
In 2023, the managerial talent pool of the Company included 1,010 most promising employees. As of the end of the reporting period, 91.42% of existing managerial jobs were covered by the available talent pool.
The young talent pool is formed at the branches and at the Company as a whole from young specialists aged under 35 having a high potential for development, motivated for professional development and career growth in the Company. The youth talent pool of the Company as of the end of the reporting period included 175 employees.
In order to add to the management talent pool at the level of the Company’s branches and executive office, an application campaign was initiated at the end of 2023 along with screening arrangements, including formal selection and expert review by the manager.
In 2023, 253 people were appointed to managerial positions in the Company and its branches: 214 positions (85%) were filled by internal candidates, including 169 employees appointed from the managerial talent pool (66.8% of the total number of appointments and 78.9% of appointments of internal candidates).
YOUTH POLICY OF THE COMPANY
The Company’s youth policy aims to provide vocational guidance to schoolchildren, raise the prestige of energy industry professions and identify potential talent, and is focused on consistent work with schoolchildren, students and young specialists.
Working with schoolchildren
Since 2018, the Company has been involved in organising and holding regional stages of the All-Russian Schoolchildren Olympiad of the Rosseti Group. In 2023, 791 schoolchildren representing the regions where the Company operates took part in the Olympiad. The winners and prize-winners of the Olympiad, as well as schoolchildren with the highest scores, also participated in the Energy Project Shift at the Orlenok All-Russian Children’s Centre, where they were given the opportunity to implement the most interesting projects with experienced
Every year, in order to popularise technical occupations among young people, PJSC Rosseti South holds Open Doors Days for schoolchildren and students.
As part of the Ticket to the Future project running from 2023, electrical safety lessons and visits to the facilities of Volgogradenergo, a branch of PJSC Rosseti South, were held for schoolchildren in
Throughout the year, Rosseti South specialists hold vocational guidance lessons for middle and high school students at partner schools, children’s camps and quantoriums.
Representatives of PJSC Rosseti South took part in the 18th International Festival of Youth Scientific and Technical Creativity “Let’s get going!”.
Working with college students
Key areas of work with students:
Organisation of workshop practice and pre-graduation practice of students of industry-specific schools in the Company In 2023, 823 students completed workshop and pre-graduation internships at the Company’s divisions
Targeted training of specialists for the purpose of their further employment with the Company A total of 169 students are studying at partner universities under target assignments from PJSC Rosseti South, of whom 54 students were enrolled in 2023. Support measures are offered for employer-sponsored students such as corporate scholarship in case of good academic performance
Student brigades at the Company’s facilities. In the reporting year, during the summer labour season, 130 students from nine partner universities worked at Rosseti South’s facilities.
As part of cooperation with the Russian Student Brigades, a youth all-Russian public organisation, specialists from Rosseti South took part in the opening ceremony of the third work semester of student unions in the Rostov Region (Start of the Virgin Lands).
Work with young specialists
In order to involve young people in the Company’s activities, the Company engages with the youth talent pool, established the Council of Young Professionals, which includes 100 employees of the Company, and runs targeted development and social support programmes for young people of the Company.
Rosseti South’s specialists act as experts at events held for students and schoolchildren, including the qualification stage of the International Engineering Case Solving Championship among university students and the regional stage of the Big Challenges All-Russian Competition of Scientific and Technological Projects.
To promote the concept of zero injuries, young specialists of PJSC Rosseti South, together with occupational safety specialists, actively contributed to Family Occupational Safety Days, where they told children about the power engineering profession, electric current, its importance in our lives, and its dangers.
A team of young specialists from Rosseti South won first place in the “What/Where/When/When.RMU” social league among the working youth of the South.
Young specialists of PJSC Rosseti South took part in the All-Russian Energy Saving and Environmental Festival #
Specialists of Volgogradenergo, a branch of PJSC Rosseti South, connected an Orthodox church in the village of Obraztsy, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Region, to their grids.
The new church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky was erected with voluntary donations from citizens and local farmers. Previously, there was only a prayer house for parishioners in the remote village, where Orthodox services were regularly held. A few years ago, on the initiative of the rector of the Epiphany Church in Frolovo, the construction of a church in the settlement of Obraztsy began.
Now the residents of the village have a real church.
SOCIAL POLICY
The Company’s social policy in 2023 was based on the Industry Tariff Agreement in the Electric Power Industry of the Russian Federation for
The Collective Bargaining Agreement of PJSC Rosseti South is the result of effective cooperation between the parties to the social partnership to recognise the social and economic rights and guarantees of the Company’s employees.
On 1 January 2023, the Collective Bargaining Agreement of PJSC Rosseti South entered into force for the period until the end of 2025.
In order to retain personnel and ensure social protection of the Company’s employees and their family members, social benefits and guarantees are provided to the employees of PJSC Rosseti South in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement of PJSC Rosseti South for
In addition, the new Collective Bargaining Agreement of PJSC Rosseti South retains additional benefits, guarantees, and compensations for mobilised employees (called up for military service due to partial mobilisation).
In 2023, health improvement recreation was offered to more than 1,000 employees and their family members at JSC Energetik Recreation Facility, and more than 900 children of employees received vouchers to health improvement camps. In 2023, 108 employees engaged in work with harmful and (or) hazardous production factors and pre-retirees were able to spend their holidays in sanatoriums in the Krasnodar Region and Caucasian Mineral Waters.
In 2023, PJSC Rosseti South and the Leninsky District Social Protection Department of Rostov-on-Don signed an agreement on cooperation and ensuring recreation and recuperation of children in the Rostov Region. Under the agreement, PJSC Rosseti South reimbursed RUB 7 million for the costs of recreational holidays for employees’ children.
The Company has in place the Regulation on corporate support of branches’ employees in improving housing conditions. In 2023, electric fitters, electricians, foremen, and dispatchers of the branch’s production departments received compensation for interest expenses under loan (mortgage) agreements. In total, more than 340 employees used this benefit for a total amount of RUB 20,884 thousand.
Through the social partnership in 2023, agreements were reached to carry out joint activities on a regular basis to improve labour safety and working conditions at workplaces. The meetings involving the representatives of primary trade union organisations and the employer’s representatives addressed issues and worked out joint solutions as related to:
- Making agreements on occupational health and safety in the Company’s branches
- Ensuring sanitary working conditions
- Providing special clothing for employees
- Functioning medical aid centres
- Paying for the time spent on medical checkups, etc.
Development of corporate culture and sports
In accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Company finances the costs of cultural, mass and physical culture and recreational activities, which are carried out jointly with primary trade union organisations. For 2023, 0.3% of payroll budget amounting to more than RUB 38 million was transferred to fund these activities.
PJSC Rosseti South devotes special attention to veterans of the Company’s electric power industry. The Company has 3,155 power engineering veterans and 42 veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The Coordination Council of Veterans of the Company maintains the work of veterans’ organisations on a scheduled basis in close cooperation with the HR Department of PJSC Rosseti South, the Council of Young Specialists of the Company, the Coordination Council of Veterans under the Rostov Region Government, the Rostov Region Youth Policy Committee, the Rostov Region State Autonomous Institution “Centre for Patriotic Education of Youth”, veterans’ organisations of cities and regions, search groups, and the command of the Southern Military District.
In 2023, financial support provided to veterans totalled RUB 7.6 million. Payments were made to render material assistance for Victory Day, Power Engineer’s Day, as well as for applications on difficult life situations. In 2023, 73 veterans of the Company were given free vouchers for health resort treatment. During 2023, with the assistance of the Company’s Veterans Council, joint excursion trips and theatre visits were organised for the Company’s veterans and representatives of the Youth Council.
2023 activities and events
- In June 2023, a team from Rosseti South took part in the Zabeg.RF All-Russian Half Marathon.
- An event to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad at Volgogradenergo, a branch of PJSC Rosseti South.
- In February 2023, PJSC Rosseti South held corporate events to celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day.
- Festive events were held on the eve of International Women’s Day, 8 March.
- The annual contest “Rosseti: Children Draw!” was held. Children of employees of PJSC Rosseti South were actively involved in the contest, and the winners were awarded diplomas and memorable gifts.
- The Company held events dedicated to the International Children’s Day and Knowledge Day. Gift vouchers were presented to the children of the employees.
- In May 2023, the Open Spartakiad of Power Engineers of PJSC Rosseti South was organised.
- For the first time, the Mum, Dad, and
Me – a Sporty Family contest was held among employees of the executive office and Rostovenergo, a branch of PJSC Rosseti South. - Children’s drawing contest “Children Draw Energy”, children’s New Year’s crafts contest “Children’s Christmas Tree of Energy Workers”, and a creative contest “Children of Energy Workers About Energy” were organised.
- The Company arranged festive events for its employees dedicated to the professional
holiday – Power Engineer’sDay – and the New Year. - All branches of PJSC Rosseti South held New Year matinees for employees’ children and organised visits to holiday performances.