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.
BASF Antwerp's executive committee, a subsidiary of the German chemical group, decided to put an end to its production in their site in Feluy (Wallonia). By the end of the year, the chemical company will have cut 133 jobs.
According to the trade unions, the restructuring measure is possibly a disguised relocation.
Eurofound (2009), BASF Antwerp, Closure in Belgium, factsheet number 69757, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69757.