Exceptions for other reasons are rare. Most postdoctoral appointees are university employees. Funding sources for their appointments include grants and departmental funds. These appointees receive the health benefits for which visiting appointments are eligible. Since these postdoctoral appointees are university academic employees, APM policies apply for corrective action and dismissal, vacation and sick leave, and other actions.
Some postdoctoral researchers receive funding from a granting agency.
The granting agency provides the funding to the university, and the university issues stipend or fellowship payments to these postdoctoral appointees each month on behalf of the funding agency. These postdoctoral appointees are known as stipend postdocs . Stipend postdocs are not university employees. The payroll system is used simply as a convenient method of distributing stipend payments. Unless an additional appointment, such as a salary supplementation, appears on the PAF, APM policies do not apply to stipend postdocs.