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.
A subsidiary of the Lecuyer group, Les Ateliers d'Auge, specialised in luxury leather goods, wish to recruit 250 people within 2 or 3 years at Lisieux (Calvados).
Les Ateliers d'Auge is banking on training to find its employees and has set up a partnership with the Normandy Region. Within the framework of the "One training, one job" scheme (Une formation, un emploi) financed by the region, 30 jobseekers are or will be trained - there are two sessions of fifteen people - in a training centre in Brionne and in the company. The region is financing the educational costs and is also covering the remuneration and social protection of trainees who do not receive unemployment benefit from Pôle emploi. For its part, the company undertakes to hire a maximum number of trainees at the end of their training with a minimum 6-month full-time employment contract.
About fifty employees already work in Les Ateliers d'Auge.
Eurofound (2022), Les Ateliers d'Auge, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 107116, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107116.