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.
Leisure boat producer Rodman Polyships has announced that it intends to present a redundancy plan to the labour authorities (expediente de regulacíon de empleo de extinción) which will affect 120 workers. However, the company must still negotiate the measure with the employee representatives. The enterprise has blamed the decision on the drop in demand since 2008. Other internal restructuring measures had been implemented prior to the ERE, including the non-renewal of temporary contracts and early retirement schemes.
Eurofound (2011), Rodman Polyships, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 71830, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71830.