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 13th June 2013, Polish chemical group Ciech announced its plans to cut about 100 jobs in Soda Polska Ciech in Inowrocław.
The redundancies are a part of larger restructuring programme implemented within the group. Ciech announced its plans to cut over 500 jobs within the group, including redundancies in Soda Polska Ciech (100 jobs), Zakłady Chemiczne Organika-Sarzyna (40 jobs) and in its unit in Govora (116 jobs), in Romania.
The redundant workers in Soda Polska Ciech plant will receive a severance pay.
Eurofound (2013), Soda Polska Ciech, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 75536, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75536.