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.
On 9 December 2010, the management of SIAC announced the closure of the plant located near Douai, and the 145 permanent employees will lose their jobs. The precise date of the closure is unknown. The plant manufactures tractor cabs and lost a major contract with the tractor constructor CLAAS, representing 40% of the company's sales volume.
Eurofound (2010), SIAC France, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 71302, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71302.