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.
Getrag, a German manufacturer of gars, is to cut 215 jobs at the Ludwigdsburg plant and another 130 jobs at the site Unterguppenbach. The management and the Metalworkers' Federation IG Metall recently announced the agreement on a restructuring plan that will save Gertag €27 million in costs. According to the agreement there will be no direct dismissals. Also, plans to close the plant at Ludwigsburg are stopped.
Eurofound (2009), Getrag, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 67939, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67939.