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.
AR Industrie Alimentari (AR), one of Italian leaders in the food market, is to close its plants in Sant'Antonio Abate, in the province of Naples, with the consequent loss of 250 jobs.
The Sant'Antonio Abate plants are specialized in the transformation of tomatoes and production of plum peeled, chopped and concentrated tomatoes. Production should be relocated to the company's plants in Foggia.
The trade unions have asked the involvement of local authorities in order to avoid the closure of the plants.
Eurofound (2012), AR Industrie Alimentari, Relocation in Italy, factsheet number 73401, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73401.