A September 2022 change in European Commission guidelines allowed self-employed professionals to engage in collective bargaining; some translators can expect additional payments.
Finland’s capital needs providers for the 70,000 interpreting encounters, in nearly 40 language pairs, that take place yearly, primarily in social service and healthcare settings.
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.
Finnish cities launch a joint tender for onsite and remote interpreting services, seeking a maximum of two suppliers for the two-year contract worth up to EUR 35.6m (USD 41.1m).
the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office has awarded Tilde a four-year contract to provide machine translation services to the Finnish government and its ministries.
Which to translate first, what to consider when adding new languages, why machine translation won’t fly for customer-facing content — inside localization at Finnish health tech startup Oura Health.
Norway announces winners of nationwide police interpreting contract. Move comes after watchdog fined police for purchasing interpreting services without a tender.
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, rose to 110.24 in March 2020.
A working group’s quality recommendations for subtitling television programs in Finland have been endorsed by professional organizations, language service providers, and TV channels.
In Finland, LSP Transfluent acquires boutique providers Translatum and Navitep; cancels prior IPO plans to focus on growth.
Hansel, the Finnish government’s centralized procurement unit, has just announced contract awards to a total of 12 providers for a justice and litigation services and interpretation tender, worth EUR 24m (USD 28.3m).
Government procurement agency Hansel defends itself against critics of the way it handled Finland’s EUR 37.5m interpretation contract; denies it changed rules mid-process.
Central procurement agency Hansel leaves Finnish government without language service contracts; source says big government clients may launch own tenders. Affected LSPs take Hansel to court. Hansel described as unprofessional customer.
EU awards EUR 63.5m interpretation contract to meet language needs of immigrants from southern border; Finland, EUR 37.5m, for those who make it way up north.
Two Finnish language industry associations merge to step up government lobbying. Initiative comes in wake of EUR 17.5m framework contract, which one association head says was structured very differently from how language services are typically procured.
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