Seek (SEK ASX) accuses Employment Hero of misusing data to win new customers
Employment Hero launched legal action against Seek, a competitor and an investor through the latter’s venture capital fund, in July. The start-up sued its own ASX-listed investor in July, alleging anticompetitive conduct, to prevent exclusion from its platform.Seek has accused Employment Hero of misusing data from its classifieds platform to lure jobseekers into joining the start-up’s own applications, in an escalation of a months-long dispute between the two companies.