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.
On 5 July 2012, the management of the ice cream manufacturer Pilpa has announced the closure of its plant inCarcassone by the end of the year. The company was bought by the German group R&R Ice cream in June 2011.
According the unions, the plant is competitive. They have requested an external audit.
Eurofound (2012), Pilpa, Closure in France, factsheet number 73935, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73935.