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Originally Posted by RefAHallic
Basically because it says so in their handbook. That's why being able to sign contracts with the schools is important. It make us trully independent contractors. The LHSAA also uses the handbook to say they can only consider raises at their annual January meeting. Get to the January meet then raises are soundly rejected. So, Officials have to hope and wait whole year to get it before LHSAA again. A walk out of some type has been the only tactic to motivate the LHSAA to approve raises. It's the only card to play with the way things are set up.
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You can put whatever you want in a handbook, it doesn't necessarily make it legal. I'm not a lawyer and am not trying to pass this off as anything other than lay opinion informed by a few minutes of googling, but this sounds like collective bargaining, not contract negotiations. This seems to fail multiple parts of the IRS guidelines for testing independent contractor status. Now who's going to challenge it, especially in light of a potential settlement? Who knows. But seems like LHSAA is in grave danger of being found to be an employer and there's a LOT of back pay, workers' comp, etc at risk.