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.
On 22 March 2009 a spokesman of the largest Dutch union, FNV Bondgenoten, stated that aluminium producer Aldel will scrap 185 jobs due to the financial crisis. Aldel management declined to make a statement as long as the talks with the unions and the works council are still continuing.
Eurofound (2009), Aldel, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 68616, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68616.