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.
State-owned company Electrocentrale Deva is to cut 300 jobs in 2010. These job losses are part of a restructuring programme promoted by the Ministry of Economy which involves 3,545 collective dismissals affecting various public companies (Compania Nationala a Huilei Petrosani, Termoelectrica Bucuresti, Electrocentrale Bucuresti, Complexul Energetic Turceni, Complexul Energetic Rovinari, Societatea Nationala a Lignitului Oltenia). The dismissals are motivated by a need to reduce energy prices.
Eurofound (2010), Electrocentrale Deva, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 70234, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70234.