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POSITION LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION [4 records]

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Record 1 2017-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Federal Administration
CONT

An important element in the implementation of the Official Languages Act is the identification of the language requirements of each position in accordance with the need to serve the public and to allow employees to work in their preferred language.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Administration fédérale
CONT

L'identification des exigences linguistiques de chaque poste en fonction des besoins du service au public et du droit du personnel à travailler dans la langue de son choix constitue un élément important de la mise en œuvre de la Loi sur les langues officielles.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Language (General)
  • Federalism
CONT

[It] is incumbent on departments or agencies to review the linguistic identification of the position in terms of the real requirements of the position, and the bilingual capacity of the work unit.

Key term(s)
  • linguistic identification of position
  • language identification of position

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
  • Fédéralisme
CONT

Il incombe aux ministères ou aux organismes de revoir [...] l'identification linguistique d'un poste en fonction des besoins réels et de la capacité bilingue de l'unité de travail.

Key term(s)
  • identification linguistique d'un poste

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
  • Federal Administration
  • Public Service
  • Phraseology
DEF

A manager’s activity to determine whether the duties or functions of a position are to be performed in English only (English-essential), in French only (French-essential), in English or French (either/or), or in both English and French (bilingual), as well as the official language profile required to carry out the duties of this position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
  • Administration fédérale
  • Fonction publique
  • Phraséologie
DEF

Activité du gestionnaire qui détermine si les tâches ou les fonctions d'un poste requièrent le français seulement (français essentiel), l'anglais seulement (anglais essentiel), le français ou l'anglais (réversible), ou le français et l'anglais (bilingue), ainsi que le profil linguistique requis pour exercer les fonctions de ce poste.

Spanish

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Record 4 1984-12-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Job Descriptions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Descriptions d'emplois
OBS

Traducteur de la Commission de la fonction publique

Spanish

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