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 public-private communal service provider Elsur of El Ejido (Almeria) is to apply for a redundancy procedure (ERE) with a consequent loss of 119 staff. Dismissals are to affect workers in the following units: water and sanitation (10), road and construction (16), public buildings (13), electricity (9), warehouse (2), administration (9), and gardening (60).
The company went into consultations with worker representatives. A one-day strike was organized by the latter after discussions remained inconclusive. Negotiations were announced to last until 23th October.
Eurofound (2013), Elsur, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 75969, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75969.