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 milk manufacturer Candia, a subsidiary of the cooperative group Sodiaal, will increase its production at La Talaudière near Saint-Etienne, in the framework of a ten-years contract signed with the Chinese group Synutra, to produce 450 million 20 cl cartons of whole milk per year that will be exported to China. The production is intended for Chinese school-children. The manager of the plant announced that it would recruit about 100 employees between 2016 and 2017. The contract was signed on 7 April between Sodiaal and the Synutra. Candia employs 1,500 people in France and had a turnover of €1.6 billion in 2014.
Eurofound (2016), Candia, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 87637, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87637.