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 redundancies are voluntary, and severance terms of five and a half weeks pay per year of service have been agreed between management and unions.
Lapple Ireland Ltd manufactures car parts, and management has attributed the job losses to exchange rate fluctuations, increases in indirect costs and low-cost competition from other countries.
Eurofound (2003), Lapple Ireland Limited, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 58888, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/58888.