Employees can converse in the language of their choice during breaks and lunch hour, but the hospital told them to be mindful not to make their co-workers feel excluded. “When you are at work, you have to speak in French,” Johanne Gagnon, the hospital’s director of communications said Thursday. 3, it demanded an explanation from the hospital.Ĭhastened, the Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies psychiatric facility convened a meeting of employees on the ward and advised them that while they were on the job, they were to speak only French - unless they were dealing with a patient who speaks another language. Quebec’s language watchdog, the Office québécois de la langue française, dutifully took up the complaint that French was not being respected as the official language of the workplace.
The latest complaint making the news, first reported in The Gazette, involves a Montreal hospital where employees of Haitian descent on a specific ward were overheard speaking Creole to each other on the job.
0 kommentar(er)
