DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It has been a long, long time coming, but sexual harassment in the workplace has become a national conversation. If you are a company owner, manager, or HR professional, the current discussion on harassment should be a wake-up call for you to focus everyone on your organization’s anti-sexual harassment policies.
That said, there is one vital audience with regard to harassment training that should not be overlooked – employees with limited English proficiency, or LEP employees.
Nina Ivanichvili, founder of the leading legal translation service All Language Alliance, Inc., notes that “when it comes to workplace harassment policies and training, employees not only need to receive the information, but they need to understand it too.”
- Professional Translation Services Ensure That All Employees Understand Sexual Harassment Policies in the Workplace
Now more than ever, it is time for companies to step up their anti-harassment game. Managers and HR professionals need to make sure that their organization’s anti-sexual harassment policy is regularly and effectively communicated and enforced. When dealing with LEP employees the policy will not be effective if non-English speakers cannot understand it. That is where professional translation services come in. Using a legal translation service that translates Employee Handbooks, sexual harassment policies and training modules into the languages of LEP employees is a vital part of that effort.
With regard to enforcing the policy, on-site legal interpreting services are vital. Once a complaint is made, an LEP worker needs to be able to navigate the complaint process.
“Don’t take the easy route. Get a professional translation service to avoid problems down the road,” says Ivanichvili. Relying on a bilingual person in the office is not good enough when it comes to something as important as an anti-harassment policy. A legal translation service, such as All Language Alliance, Inc., is the way to properly communicate and enforce your policy to LEP employees in your workplace.
All Language Alliance, Inc. offers subject-specific translation expertise in law, science, engineering, medicine, finance, insurance, and provides legal translation services, certified document translations, court-certified deposition interpreters, and on-site medical interpreters in over 100 languages. Visit: https://www.languagealliance.com/.
