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.
Chirana Medical in Stará Turá, producer of dental, anaesthetic and breathing equipment, has announced it will dismiss 192 out of its 373 employees. Trade union representatives expect that redundancies will affect fewer workers, as it was the case of nearby Chirana Injection. The reason given for the dismissals is lower orders from regular customers in Russia, Hungary and Poland. Employment effect start and timeline were not yet announced.
Eurofound (2009), Chirana Medical, Internal restructuring in Slovakia, factsheet number 68893, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68893.