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 management of Moulinex has communicated to the Labour Representatives the closure of the production plant in Barbastro although the plant shows to be 40 % more profitable than the other European production plants of the group. The formal reason is that it cannot compete with the group's production costs in China. The company does not have the intention of closing the French production plants.
Eurofound (2002), Moulinex, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 60330, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60330.