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.
Meridiana-Eurofly airline company has made the decision to layoff 900 workers (out of around 2,000). According to the source, the affected employees will be put on a 'mobility list'. The job cuts will affect pilots, cabin assistants and ground staff. The collective dismissals procedures started at the beginning of February 2011. The layoffs are included in a reorganisation plan which envisages the outsourcing of some activities, and a rationalisation of routes.
Eurofound (2011), Meridiana-Eurofly, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 71587, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71587.