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.
Móstoles Industrial, specialized in construction, furniture and logistics, aims to dismiss 180 workers (70% of its entire workforce) and to cut wages by 20%.
Negotiations with the unions will last until the 21 February. According to the unions, the company has announced its disposition to reduce the number of dismissals from 180 to 160. Moreover, wage reductions may be dismissed.
This is the fourth downsizing implemented by the company in four years. The union estimates that 360 workers were dismissed in the last two years.
Eurofound (2014), Mostoles Industrial, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 76595, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76595.