| Companies with no intention of
increasing their use of Catalan in the years to come put this down primarily to internal
reasons: they do not consider it necessary for the normal development of business activity
(59.1 %) or they consider that their current use is high enough (40.9 %).
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5. Does your company have plans to increase its use of Catalan in the near future?
4. Evaluation of the Language Policy
4.1.
Awareness of the agreement
Six out of ten
managers of UCEAC companies are aware of the agreements concluded by the Department for
Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and UCEAC, the representative for the Catalan
insurance sector.
4.2.
Agreement with the Language Policy
Nine of ten
interviewees accepted that customers should be provided with all documentation, including
policies and other documents, in both languages and in separate copies.
Table 8. How
far do you agree with the fact that, in Catalonia…?
Language regulation |
I wholly agree |
I agree to some extent |
I am indifferent |
I disagree somewhat |
I wholly disagree |
Signage, permanent signs displaying
general information and documents displaying offers in establishments open to the public
must, at the very least, be drawn up in Catalan |
60.6 |
23.9 |
9.9 |
5.6 |
- |
Policies and other customer documents
must be made available as separate copies in Catalan and Spanish |
57.7 |
31.0 |
5.6 |
2.8 |
2.8 |
| Employment contracts may be drawn up in
either Catalan or Spanish |
42.3 |
31.0 |
16.9 |
7.0 |
2.8 |
|
