Independent contractors won a raise from Denver County Court, but not the State. Walkout, which started February 6, 2023, meant to highlight several issues, including training.
With the cost of living rising fast, court interpreters say barely livable per diem rates are driving professionals to leave the field. New rates expected to be announced by March 2023.
Interpreters Unlimited President Sayed Ali and Vice President Shamus Sayed, along with the company, won the SBA San Diego Minority Owned Small Business of the Year award based on their contributions, achievements, and philanthropy individually and as a business.
Interpreters are vulnerable to vicarious trauma, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue from repeated exposure to traumatic information. Here are some ways to deal with it.
Several groups of court interpreters in Ontario, Canada take action against 12-year-old hourly rate, lack of support for remote interpreting during Covid. Ministry of the Attorney General responds.
Finnish hospital and court interpreters stop work, read demands out loud for three minutes to protest public-sector tender process. Current government interpreting contract set to expire early 2022.
Baroness Coussins moves to legislate minimum qualifications for UK police and court interpreters. Not so fast, Lord Stewart of Dirleton said. More assessment needed.
Interpreters ordered back to Los Angeles County courthouses as social distancing is called off. California Federation of Interpreters fights to extend telework citing recent spike in new Covid cases.
Ernst & Young named Sayed Ali, President and CEO of Interpreters Unlimited (IU), as a semifinalist for the 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year Pacific Southwest – San Diego Award.
Interpreters Unlimited is proud to have the honor of serving the Language Service Industry since 1970.
LSP Translated says automatic speech translation prototype to be delivered to Parliament within 12 months with two other solutions. EU to name best-performing solution official tool for two years.
Have EU contract interpreters gotten a fair deal? Who has ever used the Google Translator Toolkit? How’s business for LSPs and freelancers? Is Apple’s Translate app a big deal?
Contract interpreters rally in front of Parliament to draw attention to their dissatisfaction over EU’s offer of a “mitigating measure" as bookings vanished in light of Covid-19.
As institutional interpretation work vanishes, auxiliary conference interpreters call EU mitigation offer “unworthy of a public entity.” EU staff interpreters set up emergency solidarity fund.
European Language Industry Survey 2020 reveals what’s top of mind for language service providers and freelancers amid current coronavirus crisis.
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