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Some of the employees will be offered employment in the company’s other units, and around 20-30 employees will go into retirement. The company started consultation with the respective trade unions about the dismissals which will begin on 11 February 2013.
After the mud disaster in 2011 Mal was not able to recover its profitable production, not even with the state subsidies received since then. Nonetheless, the company’s main reason for the mine’s closure is the significant decrease in profitable bauxite extraction at the site.
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 retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
