Employees working for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made, on average, twice as much handling non-English Obamacare inquiries compared to clerks speaking English, according to documents obtained by ProEnglish.
The Freedom of Information Act request was secured by ProEnglish, a self-proclaimed advocate for the English language as “America’s common, unifying language” and adoption of English as “the official language at all levels of government.”
The documents obtained showed “English-speaking clerks only earned $12 per hour while translators are paid $22.75 per hour plus a monthly deferential of $643.”
Along with the pay disparity, documents highlighted nearly 12 percent of the awarded contract of $90 million went specifically to the “Spanish-language aspect of phone-enrollment assistance” as well as a separate contract of $1.4 million aimed at “securing the endorsement of a Spanish-speaking celebrity to promote Obamacare.”
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4 comments:
Blatant discrimination pushed by the Government violating their own laws. I firmly believe you want to live in the US then you have to speak clear English. Every other Country in the world you have to speak their language if you live there.
Love it or Leave it.
How it should be. Learn a skill, get paid more.
Learn a skill: speaking the language of the country you are taking advantage of. How it SHOULD be.
Just like Potus said Spanish speaking people are treated unfairly.
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