What can the employees do to create a bilingual work environment?
Even though this is the institution’s responsibility, the employees can play an important role. For example, they can make it a habit to use their own official language when they communicate with their superiors or bilingual colleagues from the other language group. This way, they can not only exercise their language of work rights but also give their colleagues the opportunity to develop their knowledge of the second language. They can also, if the opportunity arises, seek to improve their second language by talking with their colleagues from the other language group in that group’s official language.
