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 town council of Estepona, a province located in the region of Andalusia, has applied for a redundancy procedure affecting 176 employees. The measure will imply the closure of an education centre for old people and a school of citizen safety.
It is reported that no civil servant will be dismissed. The measure is blamed on the need to reduce the budget deficit of the town council.
Eurofound (2012), Town Council of Estepona, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 73696, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73696.