Are employees shipped equipment and served internationalized documentation that defaults to French, and then allowed to choose their preference afterwards for all services and applications?
I know the basis of these regulations is to give Quebec employees not fluent enough in English the power to ask/require a fully French environment. I BELIEVE this can escalate up to the OQLF being able to fine companies not being able to provide a French environment to their employees, but don't quote me on that.
As far as english language software is concerned, most Quebec employees have a varying degree of "letting go" on this matter when confronted to English messages, as long as their internal documentation/knowledge let them know what messages are considered normal in their work process, even if they don't understand fully what that means. The OQLF, however, believe this is a major problem to be dealt with yesterday: IT HAS to make available said software in their French version, if the software publisher actually publish a French version. If not, I believe you are encouraged (forced? not fully sure) to ask the software developer about availability.
Even if the software developper released a broken (or even partial!) French version using Google Translator, it becomes THE version to deploy, no buts.
There’s all sorts of other Quebec/Canadian taxes and fees. Thought hiring contractors pushed the hassle onto them?
For the uninitiated, this means having all UI elements in French, (OS, software, ...) as well as all things physical like keyboards signs, everything.
Even if for example I am perfectly capable (and actually prefer, to lookup errors messages online for example) of working in English, the OQLF still requires Quebec employees to be exposed to French language first and foremost, regardless of users preferences.
Source: IT Guy being on the receiving end of said directives.