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 cooperative company Coros, which works as a subcontractor at Cargo City, the air transport terminal of the Milano Malpensa airport, sent 280 dismissal letters to its workers and announced its intention not to renew the contracts of 60 fixed-term workers employed at the site.
The decision is connected to the expiration of the subcontracting agreement with Mle-Bcube, the company operating the cargo terminal, which will take place on 31 December.
The trade unions deemed the decision as unacceptable since it did not follow the collective dismissal procedure applicable when there are more than five workers dismissed; and demanded the re-hiring of the workers by the main company Mle-Bcube.
Eurofound (2019), Coros, Closure in Italy, factsheet number 99236, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99236.