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.
Turkey slaughterhouse Gut Stetten in Brettenfeld is to close; 139 jobs are to be lost. As reported, another 54 jobs were lost since the beginning of April 2014 when the insolvency procedures started.
Updated, 14/05/2014: As reported, the site will relaunch its operation in June under a new management. The exact number of the jobs to be created is not provided yet. According to the sources the majority of the new employees will come from eastern Europe (agency workers from Romania).
Eurofound (2014), Gut Stetten, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 76994, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76994.