{"id":995135,"date":"2026-02-27T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995135"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:27:00","slug":"australia-union-seeks-urgent-talks-with-wisetech-over-ai-driven-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/australia-union-seeks-urgent-talks-with-wisetech-over-ai-driven-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia union seeks urgent talks with WiseTech over AI\u2011driven job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian trade union has sought an urgent meeting with WiseTech Global after the software firm announced it would cut about 2,000 jobs as part of a two\u2011year \u200cartificial intelligence-linked \u2060restructuring. <\/p>\n<p>Professionals \u2060Australia, which represents tech and engineering workers, said on Thursday that WiseTech is required to consult staff and the union before implementing major workplace changes and must provide written details on how \u2060the new \u200cAI systems will be deployed, their likely impact on jobs, \u2060and measures to avoid or reduce redundancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian trade union has sought an urgent meeting with WiseTech Global after the software firm announced it would cut about 2,000 jobs as part of a two\u2011year \u200cartificial intelligence-linked \u2060restructuring. Professionals \u2060Australia, which represents tech and engineering workers, said on Thursday that WiseTech is required to consult staff and the union before implementing major workplace changes and must provide written details on how \u2060the new \u200cAI systems will be deployed, their likely impact on jobs, \u2060and measures to avoid or reduce redundancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}