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 commercial court of Grenoble has accepted the takeover of the Gap clothing shops, which belong to Wilsam, by the company Spodis, belonging to the London-listed group JD Sports. The court had previously declared Wilsam in receivership. Spodis is taking over a large part of the business of the ailing clothing chain for €300,000.
With its offer, it is safeguarding 214 out of 336 jobs with the commitment not to make any redundancies for two years. A total of 122 employees will be dismissed.
A subsidiary of the group owned by businessman Michel Ohayon, Gap France was placed in receivership at the beginning of March, with liabilities of nearly €6 million at the time. These liabilities had risen to more than €34 million by the time of the hearing on 26 April.
Two former restructurings have been recorded in the ERM Database, with 500 job losses in 2020 (FR-Gap-2020) and 250 job losses (FR-Gap-2019).
Eurofound (2023), Gap France , Merger/Acquisition in France, factsheet number 109030, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/109030.