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 textile company Raínha do Cávado announced the closure of its plant in Barcelos. The measure will affect 180 workers (in majority women). The management states that it does not have money to pay the vacation benefits, the wages of August and the proportional severance of contract indemnities required by law. Raínha do Cávado is installed in Portugal since 1964.
Eurofound (2004), Raínha do Cávado, Closure in Portugal, factsheet number 60503, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60503.