#27469
Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    You get this a lot – usually it’s people who don’t want anyone else to do the work but then demand that they get paid for it as they view themselves as somehow indispensable.

    It sounds like they are asking to be paid as a caretaker and, if so, you would want them to have a contract that listed their duties, the minimum number of hours they would work in a week, being available to owners and to carry their own public liability insurance – and, not least, conditions of employment that would include liability for their actions and grounds for dismissal.

    Apart from that, strata committee member can be paid for being on the committee – but only retrospectively. That means a motion goes to the AGM to pay them for work done in the previous year which, at the very least, means owners have had a chance to see what they bring to the building.

    Based on his cack-handed and bullying approach to your issue, I would tell him to go and spend a week getting some strata management training and then come back and ask for a job.

    It’s bad enough having an ignorant know-all and a bully on your committee … you shouldn’t have to pay them too.

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