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.
Cruiser firm Pullmantur is to dismiss 114 employees in Spain. This amounts to 53% of its entire workforce.
More than 90% of the staff has supported the company’s redundancy procedure (ERE).
Dismissed workers will receive compensation equal to 40 days per year worked, up to a maximum of 24 months.
The company stated that it plans to help dismissed workers with finding re-employment. Forced redundancies may be avoided via voluntary departures.
Eurofound (2013), Pullmantur, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 76279, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76279.