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 poultry processing company Verbillen Poultry Group announced its bankruptcy, with 450 jobs being lost. The company had tried to find an investor, but proved to be unsuccessful. Now, Verbillen Poultry Group filed for bankruptcy.
Trade unions and workers have expressed their protest through a strike.
Eurofound (2013), Verbillen Poultry Group, Bankruptcy in Belgium, factsheet number 75023, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75023.