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.
Sausage-skin maker Devro has announced that 130 jobs are under threat at its two sites in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The plants at Moodiesburn and Bellshill employ a total of around 520 people. The company has announced the planned redundancies as part of a plan to modernise production concentrating on the most up to date technology.
A 45 day consultation period involving the Unite trade union, the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise has been announced.
Eurofound (2014), Devro, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 77101, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77101.