{"id":118273,"date":"2025-09-04T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118273\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:59:10","slug":"employment-hero-accused-of-misusing-data-to-win-new-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118273\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Hero accused of misusing data to win new customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seek has accused Employment Hero of misusing data from its classifieds platform to lure jobseekers into joining the start-up\u2019s own applications, in an escalation of a months-long dispute between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>Employment Hero launched legal action against Seek, a competitor and an investor through the latter\u2019s venture capital fund, in July. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/employment-hero-sues-seek-an-investor-and-rival-over-platform-access-20250720-p5mgco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alleged in the Federal Court <\/a>that the ASX-listed giant had cut off its access to a tool that allows its customers to post directly onto the widely used jobs platform, claiming the larger company was engaging in anticompetitive conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seek has accused Employment Hero of misusing data from its classifieds platform to lure jobseekers into joining the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-118273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}