Workplace

Its employees are the Group’s most valuable asset. Their knowledge, qualifications and involvement have a decisive effect on the Group’s day-to-day operations, the achievement of its goals and performance of its tasks, and also on its unique nature and growth potential. The PGNiG Group is composed of 36 entities with an aggregate workforce of 32,783 (as at the end of 2011), working both domestically and abroad. Despite the large scale of its operations, the Group has maintained a uniform identity and potential for further growth and taking up of new challenges. Perfecting work assessment systems and employee incentive schemes, creating the best conditions for employee development and improving the efficiency of the Group’s operations are among the PGNiG Management Board’s priorities.

In 2011, an employment streamlining process was implemented in the Group’s companies. Since December 2011, when the process commenced at PGNiG Head Office, 112 people have terminated their employment contracts with Group companies. Of that number, 83 received notice of termination, 13 terminated their employment contracts by mutual agreement and 16 took advantage of the Voluntary Redundancy Scheme. Following appeals, notice of termination was withdrawn with respect to 19 employees.