{"id":112702,"date":"2025-09-04T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112702\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:10:06","slug":"employment-hero-accused-of-misusing-data-to-win-new-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112702\/","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":112703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}