Do bilingual people get paid more than monolingual individuals? Should you pay your bilingual employees more money for their world language skills? Bilingual differential pay is a topic you must consider as you seek to pay your employees fairly and attract more bilingual talent to your team. Test Your Employees’ Language Skills
Continue readingMeet a Language Superhero: Katie Hedrick
Katie Hedrick is the Community Inclusion Coordinator of the City of Roanoke’s Community Engagement department in Virginia. One of her responsibilities is to run a Bilingual Incentive Pay Program to address the concerns and needs of Roanoke’s diverse 100,000 residents. Katie successfully implemented the program across all departments, and to date, many of the city […]
Continue readingDouble Reward for Using Language Skills in Government Jobs: Extra Pay and Community Impact
Have you ever heard about Foreign Language Incentive Pay (FLIP)? If the answer is “no” and you are bilingual, you could be missing out on a fantastic way to earn a higher income using your language skills. Certify Your Language Skills Here
Continue readingLocal Governments Build Trust and Ensure Safer Communities with a Multilingual Workforce
The current global and culturally diverse economy in which the United States is immersed has created more awareness regarding the importance of having a multilingual and multicultural workforce in most industries and organizations, including in the governmental sector.
Continue readingHiring, Retaining, and Rewarding Multilingual Employees Is Good for Business
Are you actively recruiting bilingual employees to meet the needs of your diverse customers? According to the 2020 Census results, nearly 9% of the U.S. population has limited English proficiency, and 22% of the total population speaks a language other than English at home. With the U.S. population being more and more diverse and multicultural, […]
Continue readingCertified Language Skills: A Pathway to Foreign Language Incentive Pay
Certified Language Skills: A Pathway to Foreign Language Incentive Pay (FLIP) Ever wonder if your proficiency in a language other than English could increase your income potential? The answer is absolutely, 100%, YES! A recent report by ACTFL, entitled “Making Language Our Business,” unveiled that the demand for foreign language skills is greater than ever […]
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