Wednesday, 8 April 2020
FOI - Interpreter/translation statistics by requester and language in 2019
FOI - Interpreter/translation statistics by requester and language in 2019
Thursday, 2 April 2020
‘Can I go to work today?’
‘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
Sunday, 29 March 2020
Police interpreter hired to talk to a Slovak ‘couldn’t speak the language’
29 Mar 2020
Police interpreter hired to talk to a Slovak
‘couldn’t speak the language’
A police interpreter hired to talk to a Slovak couldn’t speak the lingo,
it was claimed.
Another translator told force chiefs the blunder could have jeopardised
a domestic slavery trial.
Dr Zuzana Windle told a tribunal she was sidelined after flagging up
issues with other interpreters.
She was on Capita’s books and worked with the South and West Yorkshire
forces.
But in March 2019 she heard an unqualified interpreter had been supplied
by Language Empire to speak to the Slovak witness.
Dr Windle wrote to West Yorkshire’s Chief Constable to say the move
“compromised trials”, and to raise concerns as a taxpayer.
She said she then lost work.
The Leeds tribunal dismissed her damages claim.
It said her argument that she’d acted in the public interest “is not
well founded”.
Language Empire’s contract with the forces was not renewed.
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