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Originally Posted by BktBallRef
The NCAA does not have to make officials employees to limit the number of games they work. If they decide that's what they want to do, all they have to do is tell the supervisors, "No official may be assigned more than 4 times a week." They are independent contractors which means you do not have to assign them if you do not want to, or if you're told not to.
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If the games are all at the same level that might be easier to do. The problem is that there might be people that would be willing to work (and already work) other levels. So you might prevent be able to control that at one level, it might be harder to do it at another level. And if you are an independent contractor, you can work when you want and who you work for, or the people making the limitations might have some legal issues to fight.
Most supervisors do not assign each official that many days in a week in the first place. Unless you work for Dale Kelley, chances are the officials that work a lot of games work for multiple people at multiple times. They would all have to get together and regulate such a thing and once again put themselves in a kind of legal quandary that took place with an organization in my area. There was a local association that tried to tell people who to work for and when to work for them and ended up owing the government a lot of money because they violated some independent contractor laws without compensation to the membership.
Peace