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.
BCBG Max Azria group will cease the production of its apparel brand "Alain Manoukian", making 175 staff redundant. The group expects to have closed all shops by summer 2014.
The measure follows the loss of a sizable contract in 2009.
The group also announced job cuts at its logistics centre in Mercurol (Drome).
Eurofound (2013), Alain Manoukian, Closure in France, factsheet number 75851, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75851.