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 textile company Melka will close its plant in Sulim. This will affect 100 workers, who will be dismissed on a collective basis. The company's activities will be relocated to Asia.
Eurofound (2003), Melka, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Portugal, factsheet number 59357, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59357.