fair pay – Translations with AM

An interactive session was held on 16 September during the 2023 NZSTI Conference in Christchurch to address interpreters’ pay rates and working conditions in Aotearoa New Zealand. Over 50 people attended the workshop on the day. The focus of the session was to stimulate a discussion among practitioners and other stakeholders on industry challenges and possible solutions. The workshop aimed to enable dialogue and collaboratively devise pathways that could be actioned in the future. The facilitators Carolina Cannard, Agustina Marianacci and Dr Alejandra González Campanella are excited to share their workshop report with everyone who would like learn more about the discussions that took place during the session.

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On 6 September 2023, Carolina Cannard hosted a virtual Q&A session to discuss the issue of fair pay for interpreters in Aotearoa New Zealand and share information about the advocacy work that she has been doing to address this.

I wrote a summary of the session for Word for Word, the blog of the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters. The main topics covered were the following:

➡ MBIE’s research on interpreter pay inequities and working conditions
➡ Her data collection and the confidentiality of all collected testimonies
➡ The scope of the fair pay petition
➡ The issue of pay scales in the selection of Language Service Providers (LSPs) for the government’s panel of approved LSPs
➡ Future contact between interpreters and MBIE
➡ The need and implementation of obligatory NAATI accreditation as of July 2024
➡ How interpreters can contribute to this cause

To read the full summary, visit Word for Word and have a look!

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WORKSHOP REPORT: Improving working conditions for interpreters

Fair Pay Petition for Interpreters in Aotearoa New Zealand