I agree with Bill Niven. It's a perfectly relevant issue. I had also heard that Oxford retains it's bought-in language staff on zero hours contracts; if true , we have even more to counter about. Jeremy Leaman Sent from my iPad On 24 Mar 2014, at 12:05, "S STOLFA" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: I agree! Thanks, Karin Sabrina ________________________________ From: Karin E. Yesilada <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, 24 March 2014, 11:47 Subject: Re: riduculous payment - but hey, it's Oxford! Nun ja... it somehow eases the pain to see that the others do care about that issue. So, thanks a lot for all the commentaries so far, from a best-wishing collegue in Germany, who, while working the same amount as her "verbeamtete Kollegen" with less payment ("Lehrbeauftragte") does not allow herself the cost Mensa-Meals and still wonders about the REchnung for her car-repair which lists a "KFZ-Meister-Stundenlohn" of 80,00 Euro ... Herzlich, Karin Zitat von Nils Langer <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>: > Can I be the spoil-sport and express what most people on this list will > have been thinking for a while: > This is *not *a topic for our list, both as a general issue (pay > conditions) and as regards discussing the practice of a(ny) particular > university. > > yours, > > nils > > > -- > Prof. Nils Langer > Subject Lead (German Dept.) > Professor of Germanic Linguistics > School of Modern Languages > 21 Woodland Road > University of Bristol > BS8 1TE > Stor Britannien > > 0117 928 9841 > > www.bris.ac.uk/german<http://www.bris.ac.uk/german> > www.fgls.ac.uk<http://www.fgls.ac.uk> > www.hison.ac.uk<http://www.hison.ac.uk> > www.onion.com<http://www.onion.com> > -- Dr. Karin E. Yesilada Postdoc / Lehrbeauftragte Universität Paderborn | Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften | Institut für Germanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft | Warburger Str. 100 | 33098 Paderborn | Zi: W1.210 | Tel.: + 49 (0)5251 60-5514 E-Mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>