Communication Between Regions
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Scenario A :
Communications between central and common services agencies and employees in federal institutionsFootnote 1
A Central and Common Services Agency communicates with:
- An employee in a bilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ The employee's language of choice or both official languages
- An employee in a unilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ Language of work of the employee's region
- An employee of the same agency ❯ Language used ❯ Apply scenario B
Scenario B :
Communications between a federal institution and its employees for personal and central services purposes
A federal institution communicates with:
- An employee in a bilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ The employee's language of choice or both official languages
- An employee in a unilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ Language of work of the employee's region
Scenario C :
Communications between employees of the same institution (not including personal and central services or supervision)Footnote 2
An employee in a unilingual region communicates with:
- An employee in the same region ❯ Language used ❯ Language of work of the region
- An employee in another unilingual region with a different language of work ❯ Language used ❯ Language of work of the sender's region
An employee in a bilingual region communicates with:
- An employee in a unilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ Language of work of the receiver’s region
- An employee in a bilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ The language chosen by both parties
Scenario D :
Communications between an institution and its employees (for personal and central services, please refer to the scenario B above)
A federal institution communicates with:
- An employee in a bilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ The employee's language of choice or both official languages
- An employee in a unilingual region ❯ Language used ❯ Language of work of the employee's region
- An employee in another unilingual region with a different language of work ❯ Language used ❯ Both official languages or based on Appendix 1 of the Directive on Official Languages for Communications and Services
Scenario E :
Communications between employees of different institutions (Not including services to institutions from Central Agencies)
An employee in any region communicates with:
- An employee of another institution in any region ❯ Language used ❯ The institutions take measures to facilitate communications