Time to put a stop to workplace injuries plaguing interpreters

While the Translation Bureau has committed to implementing the recommended measures and to exercising more vigilance when it comes to protecting their interpreters’ health and safety, there is dire need for all meeting participants to do their part as well.

Since the appointment of Helena Jaczek as minister of public services and procurement, pictured June 16, 2022, which oversees the Translation Bureau, there has been some movement, but trust needs to be restored between interpreters and the Translation Bureau, writes CAPE president Greg Phillips. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GREG PHILLIPS

March 20, 2023

Some of us have been unlucky enough to experience a virtual meeting with piercing sound that caused excruciating pain in our ear. For federal interpreters who have been simultaneously interpreting for hybrid parliamentary meetings, such incidents are far too common, and h...

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