"Indian firm 'indentures' bank workers while making millions"

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Indian firm 'indentures' bank workers while making millions

By Kathy Tomlinson, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/04/11/bc-igate-workers.html

"SNIP...........................................


The iGATE workers who spoke to Go Public said they lived with the threat of having to pay a stiff fine if they tried to resist going back to India when they were ordered to.

The company would require a family member to co-sign and if they didn't return to India, the family member would have to pay.

They said their contracts also barred them from applying for permanent residency in Canada. If they breached that, they or their family member in India would owe the company the equivalent of $6,000.

'Indentures' Indian relatives

"Punishment for legally applying for permanent residency after a couple of years is off the scale and it's unenforceable in a Canadian court of law," said Kurland.

He said temporary foreign workers have the legal right to apply for permanent resident status after being in Canada a minimum of one year.


..........................................SNIP"

[pscot]

1. The World's largest democracy

show how it's done.

[applegrove]

2. This story is from Canada. Some of my ancestors arrived in Canada and owed somebody a year of

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work. But that was in the 1750s.

[arikara]

3. It just keeps getting worse

I thought THatchers eulogies were going to succeed in squashing this story but no such luck for RBC that is.