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.
Czech coal mining company Severni Energeticka announced the closure of the last Czech deep brown coal mine Centrum in 2015. 300 jobs are to be affected by the closure but the company is currently working on a plan to preserve at least some of them. The closure of the coal mine in the Most region of the Czech Republic was initially decided by the government in 1994 but its operation was extended several times.
Eurofound (2014), Severni Energeticka, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 77360, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77360.