In February, RBC told Moreau and his colleagues 45 of their jobs with the regulatory and financial applications team would be terminated at the end of April.

"There are a lot of angry people," Moreau told Go Public. "A lot those people are in their late 50s or early 60s. They are not quite ready for retirement yet, but it may be very difficult to employ them."

RBC spokesperson Rina Cortese told Go Public several foreign workers from iGATE will be working in the bank’s Toronto offices until 2015. By then, she said, most of the work will be transferred abroad, but a few of the foreigners will remain indefinitely.

Damn! When I read IT, I knew it would be outsourced. Looks like we may have to change banks. I will NOT support this crap.

How can they do this legally? The Fed should shut them down.

However, it is against federal rules for any company to bring foreign workers into Canada temporarily if it will put citizens out of work.

“The rules are very clear. You cannot displace Canadians to hire people from abroad,” said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.

Already trending on Twitter. Many threatening to pull out their money. Can't wait to see how this plays out.

We're there tomorrow. Our account is in the 6 figures.

Ours too, if you count the decimals.

I've highlighted some things. Sounds like doublespeak to me! Perhaps they've taken their cues from our PM?

RBC scrambles to explain hiring practices to Canadians after contentious report

ORONTO - The Royal Bank of Canada was scrambling to explain its hiring practices to customers Sunday after a media report claiming the bank was employing foreign workers to replace Canadian staff prompted a flood of outrage.

Canada's largest bank (TSX:RY) said it has not hired foreign workers to take over the job functions of current employees, but said it uses external suppliers as one of its strategies to improve "operational effectiveness."

Zabeen Hirji, chief human resources officer, said the company is working to find suitable roles for 45 Toronto employees whose jobs are being outsourced.

"RBC is not hiring new employees that are temporary foreign workers to do that work," she said in a phone interview, noting that those who will take on the work "are going to be the supplier's employees."

RBC said it planned to discuss the situation with government officials.
That wasn't enough to placate a number of Canadians who took to the Internet to express their anger at what many called unfair hiring practices. RBC was trending on Twitter in Canada Sunday afternoon.

"Bad move @RBC I've been thinking about switching, thanks for making decision easy for me," tweeted one man.

"What is wrong with you @RBC_Canada," tweeted another. "Making Canadians lose their jobs ... I will switch banks, if not corrected."
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Some Canadians called for a boycott of RBC on Sunday.

One blogger urged offended customers to transfer their business to other institutions. Some commenting on blogger Norm Farrell's post said they planned to cancel their accounts.

On Facebook, a "Boycott Royal Bank of Canada" group — which received 350 "likes" by mid Sunday afternoon —called on customers to voice their discontent by writing to the prime minister and his cabinet.

"The temporary foreign worker thing I think is really designed to help out big corporations. They're stealing jobs from us and attempting to lower the average wage in Canada," said Jennifer Ridge, a student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., who was one of the people co-ordinating the Facebook group.

Ridge said she planned to close her RBC account in the near future.

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Meanwhile, the United Steel Workers, which was among those voicing its disapproval of RBC, said the entire temporary foreign worker program and the government's handling of it, needed to change.

"They have to re-look at this entire program and do it right. No one's opposed to workers coming to this country, but not the way they're doing it, not the way they're treating people," said USW National Director Ken Neuman.

"If you're going to bring workers to this country, if they're good enough to work here, our position is they should also be able to transition and become permanent residents."

The USW added that it was ready to assist RBC workers and represent them in legal matters as needed.

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At the same time, the government is continuing to overhaul the temporary foreign worker program.

The changes were prompted in part by a continuing controversy in B.C. surrounding a mining firm allowed to bring in foreign labour after insisting that a requirement to speak Mandarin meant it couldn't find Canadians to fill their jobs.

The budget said that's no longer going to be an excuse and also said employers will have to advertise longer and farther to find Canadians to fill jobs before looking overseas.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/m ... story.html

Not good enough.

That's the same with the workers who pick the tomatoes in Ruskin. Tomatoes require that you're fluent in Spanish or they don't want to get picked. Operational effectiveness, due to the low-cost wages, is just a fortunate by-product.

RBC CEO Nixon is a damn liar... like the other Nixon.
Tomorrow the first chunk leaves RBC.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... rkers.html