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.
The slaughterhouse Goemaere in Mouscron has declared bankruptcy with the loss of 161 jobs: 154 blue collar workers and 7 white collar workers. Many of the workers have French nationality as the slaughterhouse is close to the French border. The bankruptcy also threatens another 20 jobs in 3 related companies, active in transport and waste-processing.
Eurofound (2015), Goemaere, Bankruptcy in Belgium, factsheet number 78688, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78688.