Royal Bank Of Canada: Foreign Worker Program

Royal Bank Of Canada Dept: 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, according to Winnipeg Free Press. 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 and The Royal Bank of Canada logo at the company's annual meeting in Calgary, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. The Royal Bank of Canada says it plans to discuss some of its hiring practices with the federal government after a media report claimed the bank was employing temporary foreign workers to replace some Canadian staff. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh Many Canucks have lambasted RBC after it came to light that Canada's largest bank contracted an external supplier called iGate to provide certain technology services, a decision which ousts 45 employees from their current roles. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.