EchoStar

No evidence was found of the company’s leading practices in this area.

No evidence was found of the company’s leading practices in this area.

EchoStar demonstrates high-level accountability for cybersecurity and reports data breaches. The company also offers products with built in parental control features.

No evidence was found of the company’s leading practices in this area.

No evidence has been found of EchoStar’s contributions to making digital technologies available, affordable and accessible for underserved populations that go beyond commercial activity. The company could also better demonstrate how it supports digital opportunities for women and girls. Furthermore, it could disclose the number of its employees with disabilities and its efforts towards creating an inclusive workplace, as well as how it distributes economic value among its stakeholders.

The company could demonstrate how it supports basic, intermediate and technical skills development as well as initiatives to boost school connectivity.

EchoStar could better demonstrate how it manages information security in practice. For example, it could describe how it monitors and responds to security incidents, and disclose international certifications for its information security management.

EchoStar does not report how many engineers it employs in total nor how many of them are women. No further evidence was found regarding EchoStar’s support for open, inclusive or ethical innovation. The company could better demonstrate how it supports open source and standards, partners with universities on research projects, supports sustainability research and assists the tech start-up ecosystem. It could also show how ethics are considered in its research and development activities.

EchoStar does not have a public commitment to respect human rights or the labour fundamentals outlined by the ILO core labour rights. Furthermore, the company does not disclose a process to identify, assess and mitigate the salient human rights risks associated with its own operations and business relationships. EchoStar does have a grievance mechanism which is accessible to both workers and external stakeholders to raise human rights concerns and complaints, however it is unclear if complainants are able to choose to identify themselves or remain anonymous.

EchoStar does not publicly commit to respecting the health and safety of workers and does not place health and safety requirements on its business relationships. The company does not disclose a policy commitment which states that it does not require workers to work more than the regular and overtime hours, does not explicitly state that it requires its business relationships to do the same and does not disclose the proportion of its global workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. Furthermore, no commitment on paying workers a living wage was found. EchoStar does not publicly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and does not provide a breakdown of workforce diversity within each employee category.

EchoStar does not have a policy on bribery and corruption and does not include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. While the company discloses the income taxes it pays in three categories – federal, state and foreign – it does not disclose income tax payments for all its tax jurisdictions, nor does it disclose a global tax strategy. EchoStar does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement; specifically the company does not state that it does not make political contributions and does not disclose its lobbying expenditures.

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