Our Employees

Our Employees

Employee Wellbeing

GAIL is highly committed for the wellbeing of its employees and as a part of employee wellbeing GAIL has various initiatives such as:

  • GAIL is highly committed for the wellbeing of its employees and as a part of employee wellbeing GAIL has various initiatives such as:
  • GAIL facilities are outfitted with sports, gyms, and other recreational amenities to ensure that employees and their families do not miss out on important recreational or fitness-related activities while on site.
  • We also encourage people to live a more active lifestyle by implementing the Sports Promotion Policy. Our official joint management health and safety committees conduct health and safety awareness sessions. It includes fitness, yoga, stress management, lifestyle management and nutrition classes.
  • Sporting events such as cycling, and badminton are also used to promote a healthy lifestyle.
  • Minimum notice periods of 15 days are provided by the organization to maintain employee satisfaction and motivation while implementing significant changes to operations.

Talent Acquisition and Development

  • New Employees Hired During FY2022-23: Male: 245
  • New Employees Hired During FY 2022-23: Female:19

GAIL Trainings for FY 2022-23

1. Average manhours of training per year per employee

  • Permanent Employees Total 40.01
  • Total training expenditure - INR 16.05 crore
  • 33812.38 spent per FTE on training and development.

2. Training Post-COVID - GTI resumed the training in physical mode from April 2022, post-COVID-19. GTI (Noida and Jaipur) conducted 221 training programs based on the Training Need Assessment (TNA) of the employees and covered more than 4520 employees under these training programs during the FY 2022-23.

3. ASME Accreditation of the Institute - Accreditation by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)- GTI is an Authorized Training Provider (ATP) for training programmes such as ASME B31.8 and ASME B31.8S that are accredited by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). GTI has a pool of 14 certified trainers for ASME B31.8 and ASME B31.8S GTI-3 standard training for participants within and outside of GAIL.

Diverse and Inclusive Workforce

As part of our staff, 17030 male and 471 female contractual workers work across various operational sites. Our total permanent workforce across our units consists of 3772 male and 278 female management employees, as well as 789 male and 34 female non-management employees. There are 3497 male security personnel and 09 female security personnel. GAIL employed 407 apprentices this year (325 male and 82 female).

Group wise details with regard to total number of employees and the representation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections, Persons with Benchmark Disabilities amongst them as on 31st March 2023 are given in the table below:

Total No. of employees on Roll SC ST OBC PWBD EWS under General
4754 780 322 1130 96 26

Ref: GAIL Sustainability Report 12.08.2023_current.pdf 2023_GAIL_AR_2022.pdf

Performance Management

360 Degree Feedback Exercise: The goal of 360 Degree Feedback is to provide appropriate feedback to concerned executives via peers, subordinates, and superiors. We provide a diverse range of engaging training programmes, skill development programmes, performance appraisal and feedback sessions and other opportunities to advance their careers. Senior Management Development.

Leadership and Succession Planning

  • Senior Management Development Centre (SMDC) Exercise: SMDC is a tool for ensuring that the organization’s leadership is better and more inspiring. A Senior Management Development Centre (SMDC) exercise is conducted for senior executives in the E-5 grade and above. Following the SMDC, top B-schools provide executives with books, e-learning modules, and competency-specific training. Women executives in positions E-5 and above have also participated in customized leadership management development programs.
  • Focussed Development Programmes: GAIL is preparing senior executives at the Executive Director and Chief General Manager levels for Board positions through competency-building programs like Master Class for Directors and Board Room Effectiveness, in which GAIL Board Directors have participated.

Labour Practices and Human Rights

GAIL's policy on the prevention, prohibition, and redressal of workplace sexual harassment of women. In the financial year 2022-23 there were no reports of sexual harassment. The Internal POSH Committee oversees the drafting the annual report, which is submitted to the Company Secretary in accordance with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. During this financial year, no employees were laid off and no complaints of discrimination in the workplace were filed. We are committed to strengthen fundamental human rights and ethical labour standards throughout our operations. The Labour policy and practices are aligned to international frameworks (including ILO convention) for human rights and labour practices related matters.

address the issues and impacts related to Human rights, an Officer-In-charge is appointed for each unit/office/installation. GAIL strictly prohibits Child labour in any form. There is a zero-tolerance policy against violation of human rights. These policies aim to sensitize employees and security personnel on the matter of human rights violations and are extended to contractors and vendors as well. We also follow presidential guidelines and directives from the government of India against discrimination of any form. We ensure freedom of speech across the organization and Associations (GAIL employee Association)/ Sanghs (GAIL Karam Chari Sangh) have been formed by the employee for the same.

Ref: GAIL Sustainability Report 12.08.2023_current.pdf