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 luggage producer Samsonite is about to cut 211 jobs in its plant in Oudenaarde (Flanders).
161 blue-collars and 50 white-collars are concerned. Samsonite has been facing a turnover decrease for several years. Trade unions will try to avoid direct dismissals in the upcoming negotiations.
Eurofound (2009), Samsonite, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 69744, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69744.