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Originally Posted by REFVA
I was more curious to know what the gotchas were to include in the contract, I guess the obvious are what need to be included.
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My personal list:
-- How much is the fee per game?
-- Who pays the fee and how?
-- How much is the assigning fee? When is it paid?
-- What happens when a ref backs out at the last minute?
-- What happens when a team backs out at the last minute and there is no game to officiate (do the officials still get paid?)
-- I want to be sure that I am the only assignor. If you hire me, you don't get to assign your friend's cousin. You can pass his name to me, but I have the final say. This weekend, the tournament director at the site (six courts under one roof) started swapping officials so he could keep games moving. (If a game finished early, he wanted the next game to start in five minutes.) This upset the guy who assigned the officials, since he had juggled all the usual -- partners who he wanted together or did not want working together; officials he wanted at a certain level or with a certain team (or more likely, not with a certain team); fresh legs & tired legs; etc.
-- Complaints. Who has final say on rules/sportsmanship/problems? What happens when a girl wants to play with earrings and the officials say no, but the tournament director says yes? What happens to a coach/parent/player who is tossed from a game? What happens when a coach/parent complains about an official?
I have had all of these "problems" come up in AAU tournaments over the years. I had to remove a "scorer" (parent of a player) who was about to start a fist fight with the other team's coach. I have had to remove parents from the gym. I have been told I was the worst official ever and I would never be allowed to ref again in this tournament, and then the next game I was told I was the best ever.