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.
Pošta Slovenije, a state-owned company providing postal and financial services as well as logistics services, reached an agreement with the two trade unions which consisted in hiring an additional 190 workers. The collective agreement was signed on 18 November 2019, just a day before the announced strike of workers. The strikers demanded better working conditions, raise of wages and decrease in workload through new employment. According to the plan, the company will progressively implement trade unions’ requests within two years.
Eurofound (2019), Pošta Slovenije, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 97189, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97189.