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 German company Gabor will close its plant in Trofa. The measure will affect 200 workers, who will be dismissed through termination of contract by mutual agreement. Unions consider it another case of delocalisation to countries where the workforce is cheaper (Slovakia). Gabor is installed in Portugal (Trofa and Barcelos) since 1988. It employs 1,550 people in the country.
Eurofound (2004), Gabor, Closure in Portugal, factsheet number 60446, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60446.