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.
Italian metal carpentry company Steelmec (SCM Group) is to cut 180 jobs (out of 220) in its plant located at Villa Verucchio, in the province of Rimini. The collective dismissals procedures should start in September. The trade unions reacted to the company’s decision by announcing a one-day strike.
Eurofound (2013), Steelmec, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 75142, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75142.