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.
Engineering Steel Belgium (ESB) has announced plans to end electric arc furnace steel production at Seraing in Belgium. This puts 125 jobs at risk: 101 blue collar jobs and 24 white collar jobs. Moreover, also 50 temporary workers and 10 workers from ThyssenKnupp, working at the ESB-site, are threatened. The company will enter into talks with its workers following its decision.
Eurofound (2014), Engineering Steel Belgium, Closure in Belgium, factsheet number 77295, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77295.