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Feb 2021
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Melissa Pace on Workplace English Traini...

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Smokey Denmark’s Smoked Meats Company is a small business in Austin, Texas producing premium quality sausage. In this episode of All Things Work, host Tony Lee speaks with Smokey Denmark’s owner, Melissa Pace, about her decision to hire nine Burmese immigrants with limited English language skills and provide a workplace education program to help them develop their English proficiency.

Learn more about Smokey Denmark's on their website.

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