‘Can I go to work today?’ by Anna Aslanvan
2 April 2020
[…] Interpreters
registered with thebigword, however, which provides language
services to the
Ministry of Justice and several NHS trusts, recently got a letter from the
agency. After assurances that their ‘Business Continuity plan’ is ‘working
well’, they get to business: ‘Whilst the majority of the burden financially is
been taken by the company this does include reducing our linguist rates across
the board by 15 per cent from Monday 23 March.’
[…]
Any reduction to
thebigword’s notoriously low rates – between £18 and £24 per hour for court
hearings – would leave some of its interpreters on less than the minimum wage,
if not out of pocket, after costs. […]
Read more here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/april/can-i-go-to-work-today
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