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.
Czech coal mining company Lignit Hodonín went bankrupt with 210 job losses. The firm has been facing insolvency since September 2009. As the employer did not pay salaries to its employees, about 160 employees already left the site in January 2010.
Eurofound (2010), Lignit Hodonín, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 70340, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70340.