Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
After a meeting at the Ministry of Economic Development, Contship Italia, the company in charge of the management of the Porto Canale (the industrial port) in Cagliari, confirmed the decision to dismiss 200 of its workers. Since the short-time work scheme ended on September 1, the 200 workers are now unemployed.
The trade unions heavily contested the company decision and its unwillingness to accept the start of a new social shock absorber with no costs for the company and entirely financed by public expenditure.
Eurofound (2020), Contship Italia, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 101639, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101639.