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Employment Hero says Australian jobs platform Seek abused its market power

By James Panichi ( August 13, 2025, 07:17 GMT | Insight) -- Seek, an Australian job-seeking website, moved to kick employment-operating software business Employment Hero off its platform when joint-venture negotiations suggested the two companies could end up in competition with one another in their use of artificial intelligence, a court has been told. In documents filed to the Federal Court of Australia, it’s alleged that during the ill-fated discussions, Seek revealed its concerns about Employment Hero’s use of an AI-powered digital-recruitment tool and suggested it would take over all recruitment under the terms of the JV.Jobs website Seek moved to kick employment-operating software business Employment Hero off its platform when joint-venture negotiations suggested the two companies could end up in competition with one another in their use of artificial intelligence, an Australian court has been told....

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