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.
Lufthansa is to cut 199 jobs in its ground handling services at Charles-De-Gaulle airport, Roissy.
This follows the company’s decision to outsource its ground handling operations to a supplier during 2014.
Negotiations with worker representatives about cuts and a social plan will end on February 2014. Unions organised strikes against the job cuts.
Lufthansa group is based in Cologne, Germany. In 2012, it had announced to cut 222 job positions at Euroairport in Bale-Mulhouse.
Eurofound (2013), Lufthansa, Outsourcing in France, factsheet number 76216, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76216.