IGate: Royal Bank Of Canada

IGate Dept: Many Canucks have lambasted RBC after it came to light Canada's largest bank contracted an external supplier called iGate to provide certain technology services, a decision that ousts 45 employees from their current roles, according to Winnipeg Free Press. IGate told The Canadian Press on Tuesday it operates with a "high level of integrity" and will "fully co-operate" with a government investigation into the situation and TORONTO -- The increasingly widespread use of outsourcing and the way in which Canada's temporary foreign worker program could be used to facilitate the practice emerged as a key issue Tuesday in the controversy over the Royal Bank of Canada's decision to outsource dozens of Toronto jobs. Questions have been raised about how iGate brought its own employees into Canada under the temporary foreign worker program so they could be trained at RBC branches for the services they'll be providing to the bank. The program itself has been criticized as a tool that allows companies to opt for temporary workers who can be paid up to 15 per cent less than Canadians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.