Precarity at CERN, aka cheap disposable temp labour w&#x2F;o healthcare:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tdg.ch&#x2F;geneve&#x2F;actu-genevoise&#x2F;suisse-prete-aider-employes-detaches-cern&#x2F;story&#x2F;15383927" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tdg.ch&#x2F;geneve&#x2F;actu-genevoise&#x2F;suisse-prete-aider-e...</a><p>And a warning to non-western members:<p>&quot;The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y&gt;X]<p>source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report<p>ISBN: 9290831693 cdsweb.cern.ch&#x2F;record&#x2F;494264<p>On top of the above, the usual package for prospective employees:<p>Resolution of the CERN Staff Council<p>- the Management does not propose to align the level of basic CERN salaries with those chosen as the basis for comparison;<p>- in the new career system a large fraction of the staff will have their advancement prospects, and consequently the level of their pension, reduced with respect to the current MARS system;<p>- the overall reduction of the advancement budget will have a negative impact on the contributions to the CERN Health Insurance System (CHIS);<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cds.cern.ch&#x2F;journal&#x2F;CERNBulletin&#x2F;2015&#x2F;46&#x2F;Staff%20Association&#x2F;2063669?ln=en" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cds.cern.ch&#x2F;journal&#x2F;CERNBulletin&#x2F;2015&#x2F;46&#x2F;Staff%20Asso...</a><p>Pensions which will be applicable to new recruits as of 1 January 2012; the Management and CERN Council adopted without any concertation and decided in June 2011 to adopt very unfavourable mesures for new recruits.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gac-epa.org&#x2F;History&#x2F;Bulletins&#x2F;42-2012-04&#x2F;Bulletin42-en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gac-epa.org&#x2F;History&#x2F;Bulletins&#x2F;42-2012-04&#x2F;Bulletin...</a><p>Given that cheap and disposable trainees — PhD students and postdocs — fuel the entire scientific research enterprise, it is not surprising that few inside the system seem interested in change. A system complicit in this sort of exploitation is at best indifferent and at worst cruel.