Type of Relationship
copyright 1997 Donald M. Cameron, Aird & Berlis
Some agreements contain clauses stating what the relationship is not: such as a partnership, joint venture, an employer/employee relationship.
Such relationships automatically create obligations between the parties and the parties to the agreement may not want such obligations to be imposed.
Such clause will not otherwise change the relationship if it can already be concluded by other circumstances (for example, Revenue Canada, considers someone to be an employee if they are under contract for more than five months), but such a clause will assist the parties in arguing that such a relationship does not exist if those other circumstances are absent.
This Agreement does not establish a relationship of a joint venture, partnership, employer/employee or agency between the parties.
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