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| Indian firm 'indentures' bank workers while making millions | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 12 2013, 12:19 PM (94 Views) | |
| Darcie | Apr 12 2013, 12:19 PM Post #1 |
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Two IT contractors from India who worked at RBC in Toronto said their lives were tightly controlled by their multinational employer, while they took over the jobs of Canadian bank workers. "They have a rotation policy, and they make sure you don’t get settled here," said one of the ex-iGATE employees. “You are always threatened that at any time you will be sent back [to India]." The men, who now have permanent resident status in Canada and new jobs, spoke to the CBC's Go Public under the condition they would not be identified. Go Public first broke the story Saturday of dozens of employees at RBC who were losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers. Read the original CBC story about RBC's foreign replacement workers iGATE's operations are mainly in India. The company billed RBC more than $100 million for services in 2012. (iGATE/YouTube) The men said they were among a group of approximately 200 Indian nationals shuttled back and forth between Canada and India, while doing work for Canada’s largest bank between 2008 and 2012. “That threat is always there, so in a way you will not be able to even concentrate on your work." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/04/11/bc-igate-workers.html This is not at all surprising to me, I suspected this is/would occur. What fine people we are becoming in Canada. OH MY it is all about money. |
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| Dana | Apr 12 2013, 02:20 PM Post #2 |
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WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire
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That's it Darcie. This is a double edged sword for workers that opens them all to abuse from employers no matter where they originate. |
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