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.
Lasme, which produces window winders and doors for car-makers, is to close its plant located at Melfi (in the province of Potenza), with the consequent loss of 173 jobs. Fiat is the main customer of Lasme. The workers have asked to the company to maintain some productions at the Melfi plant and the recourse to the Wages Guarantee Fund schemes to avoid the closure of the plant.
Eurofound (2009), Lasme, Closure in Italy, factsheet number 69952, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69952.