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.
CSC, an international IT-company, announced that around 300 employees of CSC Danmark will be made redundant. The reason is that the Danish telecommunication company TDC (former Telecom Denmark) has terminated its contract with CSC. The contract is taken over by Indian TCS. The redundancies will be implemented by the 1st of April.
According to the act on business transfer, the employees working on TDC contracts should in principle follow the contract to India. It is up to TCS how many employees they will hire, if any. If they will not hire all employees, it is up to TCS to dismiss the employee(s) concerned according to the provisions of the contract.
Eurofound (2012), CSC Danmark, Other in Denmark, factsheet number 73281, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73281.