IGate: Foreign Workers

IGate Dept: On Monday, the federal government confirmed iGate, based in Fremont, Calif., was granted a positive labour market opinion LMO , which is supposed to be issued only when an assessment determines the hiring will not take jobs away from available and qualified Canadians, according to The Star. While it is not clear if the temporary foreign workers from India have been working and reporting directly to RBC or iGate, the affected bank employees said they have been asked to train their replacements and How an overseas outsourcing firm managed to get Ottawa nod to bring in foreign workers to replace 45 Canadian employees at the Royal Bank has become the centre of an official probe. Temporary foreign worker program under review (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.