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.
ČD Cargo, a freight transport subsidiary of the České dráhy (the state-owned railway company of the Czech Republic) has announced a further 350 job cuts out of 9,860 by the end of 2010. Dismissed workers may be given a generous severance pay amounting up to CZK 100,000 (EUR 3,860) according to length of employment. In 2009, the company implemented 1,500 redundancies (see related fact sheet 14588).
Eurofound (2010), ČD Cargo, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 70206, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70206.