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.
Steel company Sideurgica Balboa will close its plant in Jerez de los Caballeros (Extremadura) and dismiss all 534 staff.
Although the company will have a meeting with the unions on the 18th of November, it has already announced that workers will be dismissed on 19th November.
In 2010, the company had announced the dismissal of 237 staff due to economic problems.
Eurofound (2013), Siderurgica Balboa, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 76165, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76165.