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'Shameful' CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians
Union says advertised jobs ‘identical’ to ones made redundant.
“By hiring for the same job, at their own Indian subsidiary, they’re showing themselves to have breached the Enterprise Agreement and essentially lied to their workers,” she said, noting that FSU will take CBA to the Fair Work Commission over the issue. Yet the banks' pushback against the FSU – CBA said “there is no basis” to the union’s allegations and that it had been “transparent in communicating workforce shifts with our technology team” – will ring hollow for hundreds of Australian workers let go in a time of surging local unemployment. “We are a better bank because we’ve been able to hire more skilled [financial crime tool] expertise… in India,” he said while lauding its university partnerships as “extremely important” in building “specialist capabilities” in security, AI and data science.
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