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.
The Spanish natural gas distributor Redexis has set up a negotiating table with the workers’ representative unions to start negotiating an employment reduction file (ERE) of around 100 jobs (out of the total 320 jobs available in the company), as part of a comprehensive efficiency plan to address the current crisis in the natural gas sector in Spain and characterised by a stagnation in activity.
Specifically, this ERE will affect the following companies of the group, namely Redexis Energía S.A., Redexis S.A.U, Redexis GLP S.L.U, Redexis Gas Servicios S.L.U, and Redexis Gas Murcia SA.
The company has justified the restructuring ‘for organisational, productive and technical reasons’. Meanwhile, trade unions have expressed their concern about the measure, that regard as excessive.
Eurofound (2024), Redexis, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 201257, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201257.