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.
Tompla, specialized in the manufacture of envelopes, will implement a labour adjustment plan (ERE), making 132 employees redundant. This amounts to 23% of the company’s workforce. The measure is due to economic reasons.
The company offers a severance pay equal to 20 daily rates per year worked up to a maximum of 20 months. The unions have rejected the proposal.
From 2009 to 2013, 139 workers were dismissed at Tompla.
Eurofound (2014), Tompla, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 76596, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76596.