US: Bilking Bilingual Feds

[Francis Hult]

FedSmith

 

Bilking Bilingual Feds

 

While the federal salary system has a position titled Foreign Language Specialist (GS-1040), it is reserved for employees who just translate between others while knowing little or nothing about the subject they are translating.  However, the salary system also allows agencies to merely place the word "bilingual" after any other job title rather than officially label someone a Foreign Language Specialist.  For some unexplained reason, doing the latter permits an agency to avoid paying the bilingual employee anything extra for the additional knowledge and difficulty involved with working in two languages--no matter how much of the day is spent doing so.  

 

Full story:

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2486/bilking-bilingual-feds.html

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