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.
Berlin's second biggest employer, university hospital Charité, is to shed 3,100 jobs. The announcement came in the wake of failed negotiations with trade union verdi. verdi abandoned the talks with the management over pay cuts. 1,500 employees are to be dismissed directly, another 1,600 job losses shall be managed through fluctuation, announced the hospital management.
Eurofound (2005), Charité, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61594, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61594.