"Daughter" of "Gazprom" offered unvaccinated employees to work remotely

The structure of Gazprom, Gazprom invest Tomsk, sends employees without vaccination certificates or antibodies to CORONAVIRUS to work remotely.Gazprom has already vaccinated 31% of its personnel

The structure of Gazprom Gazprom invest Tomsk transfers employees who have not been vaccinated or do not have the required level of antibodies to remote work. This was reported to RBC in the press service of Gazprom. According to a company representative, this is done to create a safe working environment.

According to the Gaz-father TELEGRAM channel, 164 out of about 330 employees of Gazprom Invest Tomsk are required to take time off at their own expense until they bring a certificate of vaccination. This was confirmed to RBC by a source in Gazprom Invest, through which Gazprom controls the Tomsk company. According to him, some of the employees went to be vaccinated without undergoing a medical examination and without taking into account possible contraindications, and another part disputes the decision of the management.

But the representative of "Gazprom" has denied it. Vaccination of employees of the Tomsk branch of Gazprom invest, as well as in the Gazprom group as a whole, is carried out “only on a voluntary basis,” he says. Several employees of the central office of Gazprom in St. Petersburg confirmed to RBC that the authorities do not force vaccination, but recommend it.

The possibility of vaccination is provided, including on the basis of corporate medical institutions, the representative of Gazprom added.

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Oleg Babich, HEAD of the legal department of the Confederation of Labor of RUSSIA, notes that the transfer of an employee to remote work is legal if he signed an additional agreement to the employment contract and if the company has an internal regulation regulating such a regime on a permanent or temporary basis.

Pavel Ickert, Managing Partner at Ickert & Partners law firm, commented that a refusal to vaccinate may be grounds for dismissal of an employee without pay only in cases established by the Law on Immunoprophylaxis of Infectious Diseases, as well as the Law on Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population .

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According to the operational headquarters of the Tomsk region, on June 24, 59 new cases of coronavirus were detected there. Over the entire period of the pandemic, 33.79 thousand people fell ill. According to Novosti v Tomsk, 132,500 people have been vaccinated in the region — about 12.4% of the population (more than 1.07 million people).

According to the press service of Gazprom, 31% of the personnel in the entire group were vaccinated with the first component of the vaccine. This is twice the national average. In Russia, as of June 25, 14.62% of the population was vaccinated.

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Since June 13, employers in Moscow have been advised to transfer at least 30% of unvaccinated employees to remote work and motivate them to get vaccinated. Cafes and restaurants were banned from working at night, zoos, food courts, and children's playrooms were closed in Moscow. Since June 28, QR codes have been introduced for visiting restaurants for vaccinated and officially ill up to six months ago.

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