Re: Can they do this?
- From: Deadrat <a@xxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:03:35 GMT
junoexpress <MTBrenneman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:0276a63d-8ab9-4703-
a9bd-aa2415100d96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Hi,
I am a post-doc working at a university. I am paid by an agency
external to the university which has no ties to the university. In the
grant from which I am to be paid, I am scheduled to receive a 5% pay
raise for this year. The university I work at has denied me the raise:
because they have had to lay-off people and tighten their budget, they
do not want word about anybody getting a raise to get out (even though
the university president has received a raise and this information has
been made public).
It's impossible to tell from the information you've provided. You're
working at a university, but you're not paid by the university? You're
paid by an "external agency"? What? An agency of the US government?
You've been denied a raise by the university where you work but which
doesn't employ you? Or at least doesn't pay you? Whose account is the
paycheck drawn on? Universities loves them some grants because they get
to skim some of that sweet funding off the top for administering the
grants. That's why I'm skeptical that someone other than the university
is paying you. Some agency may be *funding* you, but that's different.
My point of view
.... doesn't mean squat.
is that regardless of the universities desires or their fears,
You're a post-doc, but you don't know the difference between a plural and
a possessive?
they have to do what is right and give me the pay rause
Good luck with that.
that the federal govt budgeted for me. The money is not coming from
the university, and I do no think they have any right to deny me this
pay raise.
Do you have a contract? If so, what does it say about raises? If you
don't have a contract or if you do but with no mention of raises, then
"they" probably can do what they want.
Has anybody gone through such a thing
TIA,
Matt
Back around the time that mankind discovered fire, I worked at a
university on jobs funded by government agencies. If things haven't
changed, then chances are good that your university applied for your
grant and specified a budget. So much for equipment, so much for
salaries, and so on. When the grant comes, it comes with rules, so the
university can't spend the money on things unrelated to the purpose of
the grant. But it's unlikely that the rules say "Matt's gotta have his
raise."
or able to give me some advce?
Yeah, think about how many people in your field are looking for post-doc
positions.
.
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