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.
GA Ferries, one of the leading passenger line companies, suspended its fleet routes and 780 employees lost their jobs. Creditors have arrested all eight of the company's ships because of default on accumulated debt of €19M. The money is owed to banks, bunker suppliers and the Piraeus Port Authority.
Competition in the Aegean market from more modern ferries has forced GA out of some lucrative routes. For the past two years, it has operated subsidised lines to remote islands.
GA Ferries employed more than 600 workers in the passenger line sector, 80 in seafaring shipping and 100 employees at the group's headquarters.
Eurofound (2009), GA Ferries, Bankruptcy in Greece, factsheet number 69609, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69609.