The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that Rogers Communications has laid off a portion of its in-house IT support group in several provinces and will redirect that work to a third party vendor, which intends to rehire most of the affected employees. The Globe's Irene Galea writes that in a statement, Rogers said it is evolving its internal information-technology support for employees and expanding its work with a third party vendor, which it did not name. "They plan to hire the majority of our staff and there will be no impact to how our employees are supported, including our on-site IT support," Rogers told The Globe. Lior Samfiru, an employment lawyer at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, said his firm had been hearing this week from Rogers's in-house IT employees, "who say they were informed on Tuesday that their roles are being eliminated or outsourced as part of an internal restructuring." Samfiru Tumarkin said a Rogers employee who had been terminated told them that upward of 100 roles had been affected, with some being given notice that their employment will end in a few months, rather than immediately, and being presented with severance offers in advance of that end date. Most of the job cuts are in Ontario.