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In a huge win for the condo community, the Ontario Superior Court on August 26, 2016 upheld a Toronto condominium corporation’s decision to amend a shared facilities agreement under s. 113 of the Condominium Act, 1998.

Over the years I have been appointed Administrator for four condominium corporations (for one I am still there after 9 years). With corporations getting older (some in excess of 40 years old), the number of corporations increasing dramatically (now almost 9,400), and governance problems arising in certain corporations (e.g. short-term vision, misuse of reserve funds, or warring factions in the building) I have noticed an increase in the number of Administrations. This raises the question whether Administrators are friend or foe to the owners of the buildings they administer.

Boards sometimes consider fixed-term contracts to be an effective way to hire a worker on an interim basis without exposing the corporation to liability for notice, or pay in lieu. Fixed term contracts are employment agreements which terminate at a future date when a specific term expires – for example, on a predetermined date or upon the completion of a particular project or task.