US postdocs hope for overtime pay

Hope for Pay Raises Fading

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Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay

Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that explores problems of contract efficiency in the face of information asymmetries between the firm and the...

Perceptions about postdocs

1104 During his interview with EMBO reports (Wiesel T (2004) EMBO Rep 5: 747–750), Torsten Wiesel referred to postdoctoral fellows as “students” and “postdoctoral technicians”. We take issue with this notion, as we believe this does not adequately describe the important role of postdocs in research and because it sends the wrong message to prospective employers outside academic science. It is s...

Postdocs power research.

ater this month, postdoctoral researchers and representatives from research associations around the United Kingdom will gather in Cambridge, UK, for the first National Postdoc Meeting, also the inaugural event of the latest Postdoc Centre of the University of Cambridge. This gathering coincides with the United States National Postdoc Appreciation Week and marks increasing, though long overdue, ...

How postdocs benefit from building a union