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.
New World Resources (NWR), a Dutch mining company which owns OKD - the largest Czech producer of hard coal, has announced that it is to cut 2500 jobs out of nearly 20,000 by the end of 2009 with a view of reducing expenses. The total number of dismissals does not include the 500 job losses in Ostrava due to the closure of a coke plant (see fact sheet 13702). The company's management also reached an agreement with trade unions on a general wage reduction in 2009.
Eurofound (2009), New World Resources (NWR), Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 69098, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69098.