HRI Policy Update – Fair Labor Standards Act As you may have heard, last week a federal court granted a nationwide injunction against the implementation of the new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime rule, which increased the salary threshold for employees...

November 29, 2016

NIH has issued NOT-OD-17-022.  The National Institutes of Health intends to replace the Final Progress Report (FPR) with the Final Research Performance Progress Report (Final RPPR) through a new eRA Commons module effective January 2017.  The Final Research...

November 21, 2016

Currently, Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs) are paid a salary ranging from $22,750 per year ($875 per pay period) up to $26,780 per year ($1,030 per pay period) based upon 20 hours of work per week. They also are treated as exempt from overtime and sign a monthly...

November 18, 2016

NOT-OD-17-021 announces the publication of the revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS, rev. November 2016).  This revision is applicable to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2016. This revision...

October 11, 2016

NIH has issued NOT-OD-17-005.  This notice informs NIH applicants that requests to submit an unsolicited application that will exceed $500,000 in direct costs will now have an option to submit this request electronically through eRA Commons, under a new Prior Approval...