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.
Meat product manufacturer Lampaulaise de salaisons has announced to its Works council a restructuring plan to cut about 138 jobs out of a total of 383 at the sites in Ergué-Gabéric (85 job cuts) and Lampaul-Guimiliau (53 job cuts). Both sites had belonged to Jean Caby and were then taken over by Financière Turenne Lafayette. The current owner has explained that the sites were over staffed. The management will start negotiations on the employment safeguard plan by 15 September. The first employees will be dismissed by the end the year.
Between 120 and 140 positions were already cut at these two plants in 2014, when Financière Turenne Lafayette took them over from Jean Caby.
Eurofound (2015), Lampaulaise de salaisons, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 84264, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84264.