US, UK begin to treat India as equal

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Not really .....

Indian company in US/CANADA

Hires from India , and collects money in Dollars , pays in rupees

Local workers don't normally get hired

Case Study : When Canada open doors to temp workers

Living in India is cheap (1 lakh rupeee/month may be high in india) , North America average house costs 500,000 USD so mortgage payment is high

Dozens of employees at Canada’s largest bank are losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers, who are in Canada to take over the work of their department.

• Canadians blast RBC following 'outrageous' staff dismissal

"They are being brought in from India, and I am wondering how they got work visas," said Dave Moreau, one of the employees affected by the move. "The new people are in our offices and we are training them to do our jobs. That adds insult to injury."

Minister responds
As a result of Go Public’s inquiries, the office of the minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada — the federal office that approved iGATE’s plans to bring in foreign workers — issued a statement late Saturday.

"We have recently learned of allegations that RBC could be replacing Canadian workers by contracting with iGate, which is filling some of the roles with temporary foreign workers. If true, this situation is unacceptable.

"The purpose of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is to fill acute labour needs when Canadians are not available for the work required. It was never intended as a means to bring in temporary foreign workers in order to replace already-employed Canadian workers.

"I have instructed my department to work with Citizenship and Immigration Canada to determine the next steps."

Moreau, who works in IT systems support, said he is one of 50 employees who facilitate various transactions for RBC Investor Services in Toronto, which serves the bank’s biggest and wealthiest institutional clients



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Royal Bank of Canada personnel were in “shock" and "disbelief” when they were informed at a meeting in February that they would be replaced by outsourced workers, an RBC employee says.


Speaking to CTVNews.ca on condition of anonymity, the employee said she was stunned when she and her colleagues were told that they would be given a 90-day working notification, and that they had to start training the incoming foreign workers – their replacements.


“We had to now train them to do our jobs,” the employee said.


Read more: RBC employee asked to train replacement before layoff | CTV News

 

[Bagha]

Not really .....

Indian company in US/CANADA

Hires from India , and collects money in Dollars , pays in rupees

Local workers don't normally get hired

Living in India is cheap (1 lakh rupeee/month may be high in india) , North America average house costs 500,000 USD so mortgage payment is high

But the workers who they take there has to live there , no difference in living cost. This is the fallacy in your argument, I say competitiveness is the keyword.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

McDonald’s faces Canadian investigation into use of temporary foreign workers

Canada’s Employment Minister Jason Kenney was in damage control Monday (April 7) after a media report that three McDonald’s franchises in the Pacific coast city of Victoria were using temporary foreign workers under a government program, even though Canadian workers were available.


CBC journalist Kathy Tomlinson’s report included an interview with one of the Canadian workers at McDonald’s. Very quickly after the television report was aired, Minister Kenney called for an investigation, and blacklisted the franchises from the Temporary Foreign Worker program.


This is not the first time there’s been controversy about the program. A year ago, dozens of employees at Canada’s largest bank RBC were to lose their jobs to temporary foreign workers, who were in Canada to take over the work of their department.


At the time, Minister Kenney said “The rules are very clear. You cannot displace Canadians to hire people from abroad.” And the bank implemented tougher restrictions on the use of temporary foreign workers.


Canada’s largest union federation, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) has complained about the way the program is used by employers, and about the conditions foreign workers find themselves in when they’re hired in Canada.

 

[oFFbEAT]

Slave mentality at display again.....too much worried about what US or UK does or thinks.....

 

[mehul sharma]

Apologies but I see alot of Indian companies taking Billions in revenue out to India

Have not see any US workers moving to India

you will see buddy in very short time

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

If this is what US-Modi are planning as what is happening in Canada , then well I leave it to US folks to decide

 

[kingdurgaking]

Presently US companies have contract -> Indian company takes

All jobs moved to India , so how does that benefit US economy

Job moving to India will benefit US economy but not the people of US.. there are lot of magic in it. Thats why offshore has been a successful business model

 

[MarkusS]

this article is delusional. I assure you that nobody in europe sees india as equal. Its widely seen as a poor 3rd world country with gargantuan social and economic problems.

Nobody want move there or work there. I give you one example...my own employer has a contract with air india and asked staff that 6 italian, 12 german and 8 french move there for 9 months to teach the local workforce. If you agree you would get a huge bonus and free housing there...Not one agreed to do that. Not one from 12.000 emplyee in oir department.

India rarely makes it in the news here and if so then in negative light like rapes, the marine issue, corruption, poverty and so on.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

We are yet to be global power like UK.

Though I doubt it would serve much of a purpose