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.
Spanish supermarket chain Dia has agreed with trade unions a labour adjustment plan affecting 114 employees at warehouses in Salamanca, Zafra, Meres and Valladolid. Of the total, 61 employees will be relocated to other warehouses. The job cuts will be implemented as of 20 April in Zafra, 4 May in Meres, and 11 May in Valladolid and Salamanca. Following the negotiations with the trade unions, the labour adjustment plan will not affect workers with partial retirement contracts, temporary workers about to finish their contract and workers older than 60 years.
Eurofound (2015), Dia, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 79121, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79121.