Altice

Altice partners with Emmaüs Connect to develop digital spaces in 11 cities in France. Through this partnership, Altice provided access to digital technology to nearly 7,500 people in 2020. The company also contributed to reducing the gender digital divide through its partnership with Rêv’Elles, an organisation that mentors girls from modest backgrounds to pursue scientific and digital careers. The company also reports the number of its employees with disabilities

Through its partnership with Emmaüs Connect, Altice taught digital literacy to 2,953 people in 2020. The company also conducts an annual workshop to teach digital skills to jobseekers.

The company meets industry norms with an information security management certificate.

Altice Lab’s Open Innovation programme supports tech start-ups. The company also supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and uses them as a framework for its reporting.

Altice should undertake impact assessments for its access-related programmes. There is also an opportunity for the company to make a commitment to ensuring accessibility for users with disabilities. Furthermore, it should disclose how it ensures an inclusive workplace for staff with disabilities and report how its economic value is distributed among stakeholders.

Altice has the opportunity to introduce programmes that contribute to technical skills development and school connectivity. The company should also report metrics on its financial and in-kind contributions to its programmes and carry out third-party assessments to understand impact on programme beneficiaries.

Altice should make a high-level commitment to cybersecurity and disclose how high-level oversight of cybersecurity is carried out within the company. It should also enhance transparency by making its information security management certificate publicly available and by disclosing the number of data breaches it experiences. Further, Altice should implement a group-level privacy policy and make a high-level commitment to child online protection.

Altice can commit to open source initiatives and standards. There is also an opportunity for the company to expand its support to social and non-profit start-ups and to start-ups by entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups. The company can also demonstrate inclusive and ethical innovation by disclosing the number of women it employs in technical roles and how it considers ethics in its research and development (R&D) activities.

Altice states in its annual report that it supports and promotes human rights. However, no formal policies or commitments of the company relating to respect for human rights were found in the public domain. Altice does not have a publicly available policy statement to respect the ILO core labour rights. Nor does it disclose a process to identify, assess and mitigate the salient human rights risks associated with its own operations and with its business relationships. Furthermore, it is unclear if the grievance mechanism the company provides for workers and external stakeholders to report human rights concerns and complaints allows complainants to choose to identify themselves or remain anonymous.

Altice publicly commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company also has a time-bound target to increase gender diversity on its board. However, the company does not publicly commit to gender equality and women’s diversity. In relation to workforce diversity more broadly, it does not provide a breakdown of diversity within each employee category. Furthermore, Altice is not explicit in stating that it does not require workers to work more than the regular and overtime hours. It also does not disclose the percentage of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, and it provides no relevant evidence in relation to paying its workers a living wage.

Altice has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, but it does not include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. Furthermore, the company does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement. Specifically, the company has no public statement indicating that it does not make political contributions, and it does not disclose its lobbying expenditures. Altice also does not disclose any information in relation to tax, such as a global tax strategy or income tax payments in individual tax jurisdictions.

The below datasheet disaggregates scores within the three core social measurement areas and by specific indicators.