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.
Hundreds of interpreters threaten to quit working for Denmark’s judicial system unless the new sole provider of a giant USD 80 million contract revisits the terms offered to linguists.
Australia launches updated National Standards for working with court interpreters. Standards described as comprehensive, first of its kind, and critical to fair administration of justice.
It has been a busy summer 2018 for the US legal and healthcare interpretation industry with President Trump’s immigration policy boosting demand for rarer languages, states building out language services for voters, and local governments pushing back on interpreter pay demands.
Local language service providers push back against Alberta’s contracting of US-giant LanguageLine for remote video remote interpreting service for state’s courts. “We don’t know who is interpreting. We don’t know anything.”
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.
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.
Legal translation is vast and varied, from ID documents and work contracts to regulations and trial case files. Here are the 8 main types of legal document and content types.
Changes are underway in the US judiciary and healthcare systems that may begin to impact demand for language services from boutique and large LSPs alike.
Association of Language Companies President says simply turning independent contractors into employees sans smart legislation is “wildly inefficient and financially untenable.”
Government procurement, new legislation, and regulatory reforms shaped the demand for language services in 2017. From accreditation reforms in Australia to new laws and legal tussles in California to translation directives in India and Dubai, there were hot-button issues in the industry across geographies.
Ottawa is adopting a pilot project aimed at enhancing language services for French-speaking Canadians, while the Florida court system is requesting a USD 4.5m budget to expand video remote interpreting service.
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