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.
The public company Gestión del Medio Rural en Canarias has announced a redundancy plan (expediente de regulacíon de empleo, ERE) which will affect 71 employees (65 employees with open-ended contracts and 6 temporary employees) of the job centres located in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma, La Gomera, Fuerteventura y Lanzarote. According to the media report, the measure aims at adjust the financial resources of the company to the regional government's budget.
Eurofound (2011), Gestión del Medio Rural de Canarias, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 71839, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71839.