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.
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The meat processing company Nijland Food in Goor has been declared bankrupt. About 180 people are to lose their job. Supermarket chain Nettorama has left the company as a customer: it represented around 50% of the poultry department sales. Nijland Food’s vegetarian department was also no longer profitable, likely due to low market prices. Sister companies Newland Food and Pasman Food are also bankrupt, and a curator has been appointed to organise the final matters relating to the bankruptcy.
The 180 employees consist of 80 full-time and 100 part-time employees. All the employees will lose their position but there is currently no information about proceedings or a social plan for these employees.
Nijland Food was founded in 1978 and produces and packages chicken and vegetarian products for retail, industry, and food service throughout North-West Europe. The business has clients in the Netherlands, England, Ireland, and Belgium.
Eurofound (2021), Nijland Food, Bankruptcy in Netherlands, factsheet number 106018, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106018.