Comments on: Wage Reform is here. What could it mean for postdocs?

By: Genes to Genomes: a blog from the Genetics Society of America

Genes to Genomes: a blog from the Genetics Society of America — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:11:38 +0000

[…] In late May, the Department of Labor released its revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act. The updated rule requires that postdocs who earn less than $47,476 per year are eligible for overtime when they work more than 40 hours a week. This change, effective December 1, 2016, was embraced by NIH Director Francis Collins in a Huffington Post op-ed coauthored with U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez. The new baseline salary for postdocs funded directly by NIH will meet the threshold set by the new rule. Catch up on this issue and its implications here. […]

By: Andreas Jenny

Andreas Jenny — Wed, 25 May 2016 16:18:24 +0000

As the grants for years have been adjusted accordingly, there never was and never will be a problem to pay for postdoc salaries.
Pardon my sarcasm.

By: Rochester Gray

Rochester Gray — Thu, 19 May 2016 21:33:37 +0000

There is no easy way tackle the use of postdocs as endentured servants. Through our matriculation through the work that someone does feel like carrying out is put on someone else. Graduate students do it to undergrads and PI’s do it to postdocs. I’ve seen postdocs forced to sit and work on a project that is the previous undergraduate did not complete. It was half a year of putting in unpaid overtime for the undergrad, who now in a phd program, to get “their” first author on the paper. Postdocs should not be forced to take on responsibilities that prevent them from doing the job they are paid to do in a timely manner.