EchoStar

EchoStar discloses data on its employment by country.

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

EchoStar demonstrates high-level accountability for cybersecurity. The company also reports the number of data breaches.

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

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

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

EchoStar can better demonstrate how it manages information security in practice. For example, it can describe how it monitors and responds to security incidents and disclose its information security management certification.

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 and ethical innovation practices. The company can better demonstrate how it supports open source initiatives and standards, partners with universities on research projects, supports sustainability research and assists the tech start-up ecosystem. It can also show how ethics are considered in its research and development (R&D) activities.

No company policies or commitments related to respect for human rights were found in the public domain. Furthermore, the company does not disclose a process to identify, assess and mitigate the salient human rights risks associated with its own operations and with its business relationships. EchoStar does have a grievance mechanism 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 remain anonymous.

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

There is no public evidence of EchoStar having an anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy, and the company 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 its income tax payments for all its tax jurisdictions, nor does it disclose a global tax strategy. Additionally, 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 it does not disclose its lobbying expenditures.