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.
French nuclear group Areva has announced the recruitment for 220 new positions in the department of Saône-et-Loire, including 200 in its sites of Châlon-sur-Saône and Saint-Marcel. The union CFDT welcomes this announcement but highlights that a voluntary departure plan affecting 188 employees is still on-going in the site of Saint-Marcel. Several reorganisation are recorded within the group Areva in the ERM database, with a huge restructuring involving 2,774 job cuts in 2015, two waves of recruitment in 2014 (200 positions) and 2013 (200 positions), 200 job reductions in 2011 and 1,000 job creations in 2011.
Eurofound (2017), Areva NP, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 90625, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90625.