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Around 140 linguists, interpreters and translators who carry out work for the Yorkshire-based language technology and services company thebigword are pursuing a claim for worker status with support from the law firm Leigh Day.
The House of Lords will today begin hearing evidence on court interpreting services amid fresh anger within the interpreting community over a new government tender for language services contracts.
A group of court interpreters and translators has withdrawn services at Chelmsford Crown Court, protesting against freelance pay and working conditions.
Court translators have withdrawn services at a court this week in a protest over freelance working conditions, with one claiming her peers live "pretty much on the poverty line".
