Bilingual Region
Unilingual Region
Meetings and teleconferences
Must be bilingual when: • They involve employees working in a bilingual region; or • They involve employees working in unilingual regions for which the OL differs. May be unilingual when: • All the attendees have indicated the same OL preference. Provide employees with regularly and widely-used work instruments and electronic systems in both OL, such as: • manuals and handbooks of policies, procedures and directives; • handbooks and documentation needed to deliver services to the public or to employees; and • lexicons, official institutional publications, forms and templates that employees consult and other similar tools that they use in performing their duties. With regard to electronic systems, those provided to employees as information sources or work tools must allow navigation and access to information in either OL.
Are generally in the OL of the region, if all participants are from that region or from another region with the same OL. Must be bilingual when: • They involve employees working in a bilingual region; or • They involve unilingual regions for which the OL differs. Provide employees with regularly and widely-used work instruments and electronic systems in the OL of the region. Employees who occupy bilingual positions are provided with work instruments in both OL if they require them to communicate or provide services to the public or employees in both OL.
Work instruments and electronic systems
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