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 Vodrages — Tecidos e Fios is about to close, making 100 workers redundant. The company gave as a reason the severe economic difficulties. The 100 workers of the Vodrages Company demand the payment of the December wages and 50% of the Christmas subsidy.
Eurofound (2005), Vodrages - Tecidos e Fios, Closure in Portugal, factsheet number 61078, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61078.