A major cyber attack has led to Australia's largest meatworks company, JBS Foods, shutting down, as well as the company's facilities in the United States and Canada.
JBS Foods' information systems were targeted, with the company's chief executive Brent Eastwood confirming the news to Beef Central.
The cyber attack means that thousands of people would go without pay, the Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union Queensland secretary Matt Journeaux said.
"The meat in the sandwich is that this is a concerted effort against Australian business and the workers will suffer as a result of that," Journeaux told ABC Radio Brisbane.