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.
Management has announced the suppression of 90 jobs on the 600 at the technical services provider specialised in the development, building and maintenance of ships and platforms.
This means a new loss for the industrial employement in the area of Rotterdam. The crisis in the shipbuilding sector is extending to the depending companies providing technical services. Discussions between trade unions and management will take place in order to set up a social plan but the FNV union hopes that there will be no direct dismissals.
Eurofound (2003), Imtech Marine, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 60193, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60193.