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.
Frozen bakery and bread manufacturer Delifrance announced a social plan envisaging a minimum of 46 job cuts. This would affect the company’s sites at Landevan, Morbihan, (43 of 324 jobs to be cut, half of which in administrative positions) and Ivry, Val-de-Marne, (3 of 101 jobs).
Additionally, the company will propose 18 relocations to Ivry and 12 to Landevan, all of which could lead to further dismissals if refused by the workers. Hence, up to 76 dismissals could be made in total.
Delifrance is a subsidiary of French Grands Moulins de Paris.
Eurofound (2013), Delifrance, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 76260, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76260.