Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield

France
Real Estate, Retailing

Risk Level:

Rating - Clear
Lower Risk

Summary:

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) is a real estate company headquartered in Paris, France. URW provides protections against viewpoint discrimination, and the company has not publicly terminated business relationships due to ideological differences. Though URW has implemented various internal ESG and DEI policies, the company has avoided externally endorsing specific ideological goals or funding ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression. URW does not discriminate against religious organizations in its charitable giving. For these reasons, URW receives a Lower Risk rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
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Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has not terminated business relationships due to ideological differences.

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Rationale

URW does not explicitly discriminate against religious organizations in its philanthropy program (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Rationale

URW provides viewpoint protections for employees (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
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Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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URW’s corporate social responsibility plan includes “(improving) employee engagement on diversity and inclusion” and ensuring that 100% of employees participate in CSR training, implying that the company has planned to institute mandatory ESG-related training for employees (1). URW has also been awarded for its efforts in complying with climate policies (2).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

URW has not corporately funded ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression.

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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URW’s US lobbying practices have been bipartisan and business-focused (1).

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March 24, 2023

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