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A new report from the Official Languages Commissioner claims federal employees are writing too many emails in English, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

In an Access to Information letter, Commissioner Raymond Theberge says his complaints on the issue were ignored by service managers saying, “Over the past three years we have noticed an ongoing and repetitive increase in language of work complaints.”

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Theberge also said meetings were “English only” and counted a total of 157 staff complaints in the past five years alone against Shared Services Canada (SSC) — Canada’s IT agency.

In the letter, Theberge explained there has been a “significant increase in complaints” against the SSC and that the support of the SSC is needed to “resolve systematic and repetitive problems” related to written work communications.

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However, on July 3, the federal court ruled English-speaking employees cannot be compelled to use French. Justice Peter Annis wrote in the ruling: “The reality in many so-called bilingual environments is that the language of work is English.”