Germany’s BDÜ Updates Guidance on Fair Remuneration for Interpreters
BDÜ, Germany’s professional association for interpreters and translators, pushes for fair remuneration for interpreters and highlights the negative consequences of “fee-dumping”.
BDÜ, Germany’s professional association for interpreters and translators, pushes for fair remuneration for interpreters and highlights the negative consequences of “fee-dumping”.
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Update to Germany’s Judicial Remuneration and Compensation Act sees rates rise for translators and interpreters. Industry association BDÜ criticizes changes as inadequate.
New collective volume from the BDÜ offers a reflective and multifaceted way into the set of issues surrounding quality and translation
More than half the tools used by technical translators in Germany are developed by SDL; while challengers, such as Kilgray and Across, also make a strong showing. More recent entrants into translation productivity market almost entirely absent.
Survey by Germany’s Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators reveals big differences in annual income among translators and interpreters employed by the private and public sectors.
Ricarda Essrich, named First Chair of North Rhine-Westphalia Chapter of Germany's BDÜ, speaks on the fast changing freelance environment, alarming price developments, and emerging opportunities through technology.
77% of German translators and interpreters surveyed by Germany’s translation association BDÜ report business to be good or very good. Positive trend from 2015 continues, as outlook remains positive.
Daily newspaper Die Welt says interpreters contracted by Germany’s Federal Migration Office are “dangerously powerful”.
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