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.
Nottinghamshire miners have saved the endangered Harworth colliery from closure by agreeing an eleventh-hour redundancy and productivity deal with UK Coal. The company, which was due to report much stronger annual financial figures on the 2nd March, is to cut a further 70 of the 300 jobs at the mine near Doncaster, while the remainder of the workforce have agreed to longer shifts. The deal was concluded by the Union of Democratic Mineworkers.
Eurofound (2006), UK Coal, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63151, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63151.