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.
Bankruptcy has closed the Pannon Szárnyas Kft chicken processing plant in Győr, Hungary and 300 employees have been dismissed. The company had debts to the tune of over a billion forint (€3 million). Pannon Szárnyas has been grounded in 1998 and planned the processing and selling of 10-15 million chickens annually. In the second half of 2009 the company began to really struggle due to low sales prices and could no longer pay its employees. Since the announcement of the bankruptcy the trade union Vasas (www.vasasszakszervezet.hu) has arranged that outstanding wages will be reimbursed in October 2010 from the national Wages Guarantee Found.
Eurofound (2010), Pannon Szárnyas, Bankruptcy in Hungary, factsheet number 70871, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70871.