Telstra job cuts will ‘gut local capability’, union warns


David Allen
Reporter

Telstra will axe or offshore almost 650 jobs under a new partnership with global tech giant Infosys unveiled late Wednesday, a move the peak communications sector union says will “gut local technology capability” and put the data of “millions” of high-level customers at risk.

The shock announcement from the telco came on the heels of an earlier “cost efficiency” proposal put to employees at a Telstra-Accenture joint venture earlier this …

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