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<body><div>On Mon, Dec 12, 2016, at 16:47, harry wwc wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I recently sat through some Board Governance training for NSW non-Government NFP schools, and my understanding there is that Board Members can only be reimbursed for actual costs incurred carrying out their duties as a Board Member. They can not, and it is illegal to do so, be paid for the 'time' as a Board Member.<br></div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Momentarily donning my lawyer hat[0] to say this is not a hard-and-fast rule that would apply to Linux Australia.<br></div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That is not to say it is something we should do, merely that it is something that it is legal for us to do. I think before doing so we would want to thoroughly examine the precise form this would take, because opportunities for conflict do arise.<br></div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The usual approach would be not to pay members of the committee for their committee membership, but instead to employ one or more staff members who may sit on the Council ex oficio, or not. Some organizations also pay an honorarium to board members, and this is normally permissible (again subject to appropriate checks).<br></div>
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<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[0]: This is not legal advice and should not be relied on as such. Specific legal advice should be taken by Linux Australia prior to paying board members. I do not currently hold a practicing certificate anywhere in Australia, so I cannot provide legal advice. I'm speaking here as someone who worked as a lawyer, but my knowledge may be outdated or incorrect, hence the need for specific legal advice.<br></div>
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