Ezispeak saga: Connecting Now, and the future

Ezispeak saga: Connecting Now, and the future
Interpreters were urged to contact MBIE about the liquidators so they could be paid. (Image: Getty)
Victoria Young
Ezispeak interpreters were left high and dry when the company went into liquidation, first in Australia in September 2021 and then in New Zealand on June 16.Work done under Ezispeak's Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) contract went unpaid, despite interpreters taking calls from 56 government agencies at all hours of the day, including from police and MIQ.Soon after liquidators were appointed to the New Zealand unit, communications from the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to interpreters were leak...

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