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.
Portuguese textile group Manuel Gonçalves (TMG) is to cut 100 positions in Famalicão. The redundancies will affect mostly the units of spinning, weaving and dyeing. Last year the company had already dismissed 50 workers who were formerly employed at the same plant.
According to the union Sindicato Têxtil do Minho e Trás-os-Montes, the company has been struggling with lack of orders and intends to reduce its production in Famalicão.
Eurofound (2013), TMG, Internal restructuring in Portugal, factsheet number 75488, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75488.