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 Directorate-General of Traffic (Dirección General de Tráfico - DGT), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Interior of Spain which is responsible for the Spanish road transport network, will recruit 126 new traffic examiners for driving licenses at national level. This increase in staff comes after a strike of more than five months by the examiners’ trade union to complain about the staff deficit. Since 2009, the workforce of traffic examiners decreased from about 900 workers to about 740 in June 2017.
Eurofound (2018), Dirección General de Tráfico, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 96292, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96292.