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 Czech brown coal mining company Severní Energetická (SE) plans to make some 200 workers redundant in 2017 due to the phase-out of coal mining at the CSA mine by 2024, based on a government decision from 2015 not to break the limits of mining. The dismissed miners will be entitled to compensation of up to CZK 5300 (EUR 196) a month for a maximum period of five years.
Eurofound (2017), Severní Energetická (SE), Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 89770, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89770.