&quot;How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?&quot; -- H. Schopper<p>Potential missing staff in some areas is a separate issue, and educational programmes are not designed to make up for it. On-the-job learning and training are not separated but dynamically linked together, benefiting to both parties. In my three years of operation, I have unfortunately witnessed cases where CERN duties and educational training became contradictory and even conflicting.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ombuds.web.cern.ch&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;lets-not-confuse-students-and-fellows-missing-staff" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ombuds.web.cern.ch&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;lets-not-confuse-stud...</a><p>Resolution of the 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>The situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab. The Snowmass Young Physicists survey received responses from 956 early-career researchers, including 343 postdocs. But INSPIRE currently lists just 152 &quot;junior&quot; positions, including 61 in North America. And the supply of jobs isn&#x27;t likely to increase, says John Finley, an astrophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is leading a search to replace two senior particle physicists.<p>Indeed, even while giving complete satisfaction, they have no forward vision about the possibility of pursuing a career at CERN.<p>This lack of an element of social responsibility in the contract policy is unacceptable. Rather than serve as a cushion of laziness for supervisors, who often have only a limited and utilitarian view when defining the opening of an IC post, the contract policy must ensure the inclusion of an element of social justice, which is cruelly absent today.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;staff-association.web.cern.ch&#x2F;content&#x2F;unsatisfactory-contract-policy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;staff-association.web.cern.ch&#x2F;content&#x2F;unsatisfactory-...</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.<p><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>precarity at CERN, aka cheap disposable temp labour w&#x2F;o healthcare:
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